94 schools report epidemics in Minnesota in the middle of the waves of the flu

Respiratory diseases have hardly struck the minnesota schools after the holidays, with 94 missing 10% or more of their students during the week ending on January 18 due to the flu, COVVI-19 and other infections seasonal.

The hospitalizations linked to the flu went from 877 during the week ending on January 4 to 629 last week, although this total remained higher than in any week during the four previous flu seasons. North Memorial Health in Robbinsdale was one of the hospitals that still felt the pressure, signaling a 10 am expectation during its emergency service Thursday morning which had dropped only at five o’clock in noon.

Minnesota had only pointed out 40 school epidemics this flu season, up to 94 people last week. The state also reported 13 influenza epidemics in long -term care establishments last week and three other RSVs, or respiratory syncytial virus.

The RSV normally strikes the hardest children, but was more severe than usual for adults this winter and has contributed to the overcrowding of the hospital with an increase in stomach diseases linked to norovirus.

Minnesota also reports 40 to 60 new COVVI-19 hospitalizations a day since the Christmas holidays, when family and friends gatherings have probably helped to supply the spread of infectious disease. The sampling of wastewater has revealed a drop in levels in the last two weeks of the coronavirus which causes COVID-19, however, these hospitalizations could therefore soon decrease.

No child has died of flu, despite the recent increase in school epidemics. The state has reported 79 deaths linked to flu so far this season and an 80 -year -old median age for those who died.