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.
of respiratory and flu-like symptoms among students at Patrick Henry High School, adding that “it is too early” to determine the cause of the outbreak and that the county is evaluating the possibility of similar outbreaks at other schools.
“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.Signs of increased flu activity were first seen in the Southern Hemisphere this summer, and as more people in the Northern Hemisphere relax Covid-19 restrictions and return to socializing without masks and in large crowds, cases of flu are being reported. The widespread number of cases so early in the flu season is unusual.
When people began isolating, social distancing and masking to slow the spread of Covid-19 in early 2020, flu all but disappeared in the US. As a result, most people haven’t been exposed to influenza for a few years, meaning immunity against flu viruses could be low and underscoring the need to get vaccinated.
Concern has grown as officials also brace for possible surges this winter in Covid-19 and other common respiratory viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus or RSV, a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children.
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