{"id":519689,"date":"2026-11-05T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519689\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T18:54:22","slug":"sacramento-county-confirms-first-flu-related-death-of-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519689\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento County confirms first flu-related death of 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento County has reported its first flu-related death of the 2026-27 season, health officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was in her 50s, had underlying chronic medical conditions and had not been vaccinated against the flu, according to Sacramento County Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>She developed respiratory symptoms in mid-October and tested positive for Influenza A. Officials said she was hospitalized a few days later and died shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a stark reminder that the flu can cause serious illness and even death, but vaccination remains our best defense,&#8221; said Sacramento County Public Health Officer Dr. Phuong Luu in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s first reported flu death comes about a month earlier than last year, when Sacramento County reported its first death in late November.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Luu said flu is circulating at very high levels in California and urged residents six months and older to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said it takes about two weeks after vaccination for the body to build protection against the flu.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento County has reported its first flu-related death of the 2026-27 season, health officials said Wednesday. The woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3711,121,357,123,122],"class_list":["post-519689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-flu-season","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}