{"id":9201,"date":"2018-01-09T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2018-01-09T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:37:20","slug":"defending-against-this-seasons-deadly-flu-5-things-to-know-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9201","title":{"rendered":"Defending Against This Season\u2019s Deadly Flu: 5 Things To Know Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Aja C. Holmes planned to go to work last week, but her flu symptoms \u2014 a cough, fever and severe body aches that worsened overnight \u2014 had other ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like somebody took a bat and beat my body up and down,\u201d said Holmes, 39, who works as a residential life director at California State University-Sacramento. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get out of bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nation is having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad\u00a0flu season. <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/defending-against-this-seasons-deadly-flu-5-things-to-know-now\/?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=59861527&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9PFVOMKKEvodUmmtgE2PgzHT5tHjS83CumOQwLMg5seMxfoofMuDmOQ5tsW1Y6a2TDr-SgM5vECNpZFEpwjtBbYS7OkA&amp;_hsmi=59861527\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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