今年底,已有460万人染上,3.9万人住院,2,100多人死亡
The holiday season may be ending, but health officials say flu season is just beginning. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that so far this season there have been at least 4.6 million flu illnesses, 39,000 hospitalizations and 2,100 deaths from flu.
The CDC also says all regions of the country are seeing elevated levels of flu-like illness.
The government health watchdog found that during the week ending Dec. 21, high levels of the flu were found in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.