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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I haven't seen much data indicating that this is an especially bad flu season. Deaths and hospitalizations through January weren't abnormally high. The spike in the graph on the CDC website combines both pneumonia and influenza deaths, so it can be a little confusing when you first look it.
Hospitalizations were quite a bit lower (about 30%) than 2017-8. Pediatric deaths were about 10% lower than 2017-18, but 20% higher than last year.
Did you find that info somewhere else?
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No I was just going by communications being put out by our health system.