{"id":227634,"date":"2026-01-04T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227634\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:41:07","slug":"flu-cases-in-eastern-iowa-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227634\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu cases in Eastern Iowa continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The number of flu cases continues to rise across the state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Iowa Department of Heath and Human Services said 47 schools across Iowa had at least 10% of students out with illness during the week before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">St. Luke\u2019s Hospital in Cedar Rapids said it expects the number of cases to continue to grow because of the time people spent in close quarters over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Dustin Arnold, St. Luke\u2019s Hospital Chief Medical Officer, said the hospital had about 60 cases of flu before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The week after, cases had tripled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Arnold said even if you test positive for the flu with an at-home test, it\u2019s still worth seeing the doctor to be prescribed a medication, like Tamiflu, to help with symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt may lessen the intensity of the illness. So you may not be as fatigued or have complications from that. So it does reduce hospitalizations,\u201d Dr. Arnold said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Arnold said while Flu cases are high, the number of COVId-19 cases right now are low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The number of flu cases continues to rise across the state. The Iowa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[160,1913,103,61,1356,9481,52625,116800,60,74787,41037,116801],"class_list":["post-227634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-covid-19","tag-flu","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-illness","tag-influenza","tag-influenza-a","tag-influenza-b","tag-ireland","tag-sickness","tag-st-lukes-hospital","tag-unitypoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}