Aggressive flu cases have bumped California from a low to a high influenza category in just two weeks, according to the CDC.
An aggressive surge in flu cases across California has bumped the state from a low to high influenza category in just two weeks, making it the first state on the West Coast to enter the high category status, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nationwide this season, there have been an estimated 2.8 million influenza cases, 23,000 hospitalizations and 1,300 deaths, three of which have been children, the CDC reported. In San Diego County, influenza cases have now been reported as frequently as the amount of COVID-19 cases in November, county health data shows. Dr. Samer Khodor, Chief Medical officer at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, said it has been a much earlier peak for the flu season.Get San Diego local news, weather forecasts, sports and lifestyle stories to your inbox.Tents are set up outside Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, right in front of their Emergency Room department.
Dr. Khodor says the lobby of Sharp Chula Vista is being used to separate those with flu from other patients. "It's really just to streamline the process, so people coming in with respiratory illnesses we can take them there and they get their care quicker," Khodor said.
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