Flu cases are on the rise across New York state.<\/p>\n
There were 7,765 cases statewide of the flu the week ending Nov. 22, according to data from the state.<\/p>\n
That’s a 100% increase from the week prior. <\/p>\n
In Westchester County, there’s been 580 cases of the flu reported last week, compared to 267 the week before. <\/p>\n
Dr. Evan Cohen, an emergency medicine doctor with Northern Westchester Hospital, says with Christmas right around the corner, it’s important to get your flu shot. <\/p>\n
“It dramatically reduces the chances that we get so sick that we have to come see people like me in the emergency department,” said Cohen. <\/p>\n
He says that while getting the flu shot doesn’t prevent you from getting it, it will lessen the intensity of the virus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flu cases are on the rise across New York state. There were 7,765 cases statewide of the flu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32315,9,11,10,49,8573],"class_list":["post-60330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-flu","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}