Flu

Ontario County Public Health Director Mary Beer says the numbers of people who have influenza, COVID and RSV aren’t being counted anymore, but she’s hearing from providers, hospitals and urgent care centers that there is ... more

According to Ontario County's Public Health Director, Mary Beer, the flu is spreading early this year. Beer shared that this was the first year she's seen flu activity being so widespread so early on in ... more

A 3-year-old child in Texas has been the first flu related death reported for the season this year. The child was a female who passed away from influenza related symptoms. This is the first confirmed ... more

Flu season is here. Several regions across the state have been identified as 'flu hot spots'. Central New York is the region closest to the Finger Lakes that has been labeled as such. There have ... more

You can become infected with COVID-19 and the flu at the same time- but 'flurona' is not real. Scientists urge people to stop using 'flurona' as a term to describe it as its own virus ... more

Officials are urging people to get their flu shot more this year compared to years prior, especially to avoid the possibility of a twindemic. A twindemic would happen when the flu and COVID-19 both become ... more

A new study discovered that some people who contracted COVID after getting their flu vaccination experienced less severe symptoms from the virus. 37,000 people were studied that got their flu shot two weeks to six ... more

Flu season is approaching in the U.S. and that has health officials across the board worried. Not only because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Delta and Mu variants, and possibility of having a twin-demic, but ... more