UPDATE: Flu-Related Death Numbers Double Since Last Week
The Minnesota Department of Health releases its latest numbers on this season's flu-related deaths and hospitalizations.
The influenza outbreak of 2012-13 has now killed 60 Minnesotans and hospitalized 1,842, according to information released Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Health. The department’s second weekly report on the flu outbreak more than doubles the number of reported deaths in the state; which totaled 27 last week. The total number of deaths is now nearly as high as that of the swine flu outbreak of 2009-10, which killed 67 Minnesotans. The number of flu-related hospitalizations actually exceeds the total of 2009-10. According to a Fox 9 news report, 88 percent of the deaths were patients age 65 or older, making up 53 of the 60 fatal cases this season. There were no deaths in the past week involving patients younger than 24. The …
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Fabuladico
3:25 pm on Saturday, January 19, 2013
The flu doen't just knock on the door and sweep into a person's house like the proverbial thief in the night. It's carried in. I wonder how many of those 60 deaths and 1842 hospitalizations could have been avoided if people who had the flu didn't go out with the bug to go shopping, to movies, to work and so on because somehow they think they're too tough to be beaten down by this bug. For those … more ›