Despite the international fears of coronavirus, it is influenza that is hammering the region around Cincinnati, where at least seven school districts have been temporarily closed after more than 1,000 students were absent with flu symptoms. In southern Ohio, schools in Reading, Wilmington, Manchester and Three Rivers were closed on Friday. In northern Kentucky, Bracken County schools were closed Thursday and Friday, while Pendleton and Grant Counties shut down on Friday and will not re-open until Tuesday, February 4. So far this season, the flu has killed at least 1,500, including 68 influenza-associated pediatric deaths, according to the CDC. Ohio has had one pediatric death from flu so far, a Cuyahoga County teenager, and Kentucky has two child deaths.

Source: Daily Mail January 31, 2020 21:43 UTC