https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/spotlights\/flu-activity-elevated.htm<\/a><\/p>\nFrom the article: \u201cCDC monitors and analyzes key flu activity indicators every week. After sustained elevated activity is observed across key indicators for a number of weeks, flu season is said to have started. Flu activity met those criteria for the week ending December 15 (Week 50).<\/p>\n
Influenza-like-illness (ILI) activity, which had hovered at or slightly above the national baseline of 2.2% for the previous three weeks, jumped to 2.7% nationally, with 8 out of 10 regions of the country at or above their regional ILI baselines. [Over the past 5 seasons, the peak of ILI has ranged from 3.6% (2015-2016) to 7.5% (2017-2018)].<\/p>\n
New York City and 11 states are experiencing high or moderate ILI activity.<\/p>\n
24 states and Guam are reporting regional or widespread activity.<\/p>\n
The percent of respiratory specimens testing positive for flu at clinical laboratories increased from 6.5% during week 49 to 11.0% during week 50.<\/p>\n
To date, influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses have predominated nationally; however, over the last three weeks influenza A(H3N2) viruses\u00a0 have been most common in the southeastern United States (HHS Region 4: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee).\u201d<\/p>\n
The remainder of the report is at the link above. If you didn\u2019t get your flu shot, you should. They are free at VA clinics and FHCCs. Even so, the Corpsman who gave me mine told me that this time, the flu shot is effective against only 26% of the flu viruses available.<\/p>\n
And of course, now, I have a cold that comes and goes and I spilled hot tea on my keyboard last night and had to get out an old one, so between coughing and sneezing and feeling like someone \u00a0stomped on my head, my life is just crap right now. \u00a0And it\u2019s all YOUR fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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