Six Deaths Related To The Flu Outbreak Have Been Reported In Minnesota – WCCO | CBS Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota properly being officials advise a virus of early flu traces has contributed to the deaths of six other folks.

There were 60 circumstances of flu-enjoy sickness reported to the command closing week. That’s a 5-fold amplify from the week before.

The Department of Properly being says the flu continues to spread statewide, with circumstances reported in every discipline.

It has hit children specifically hard.

They’ve a a increased than fashioned fragment of the 262 flu-related hospitalizations reported so a ways this season, even even though now now not one in every of the deaths sharp children.

Properly being officials advise some colleges are lacking as many as one-fifth of their students.

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