{"id":9482,"date":"2018-02-05T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9482"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:02:05","slug":"cdc-not-exactly-sure-why-this-flu-season-has-been-so-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9482","title":{"rendered":"CDC not exactly sure why this flu season has been so rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 53 children who have died of the flu this season. The flue is a virus, and there are three different strains circulating this year; however, the predominant strain this year has been H3N2. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/politics-101\/372257-the-2018-flu-epidemic-what-you-need-to-know?utm_campaign=KHN:%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=60442703&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-994gxam229Y8M7od5C9nnPPOHgHVcia2rIu7TqgKK4RDfciHfOcS1FtzfURXKTv87a232dsJdmsVVCxg2r1rmWvQtmSw&amp;_hsmi=60442703\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9071\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-300x40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-300x40.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-768x102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 53 children who have died of the flu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}