US health officials are becoming increasingly concerned about this year’s flu season — and are already seeing signs that the virus is spreading. As the 2022-23 flu season gets underway, one high school in California is facing a “high number of absences” among students due to possible flu cases. “I’m concerned that we will have a very substantial influenza season coming up this year, very different from our two previous seasons,” he said. The widespread number of cases so early in the flu season is unusual. We’re all concerned, having seen what’s going on in the Southern Hemisphere, in Australia, that this year’s flu season could be really, really rough, frankly,” Casalotti said.

Source: CNN October 14, 2022 17:58 UTC