{"id":81976,"date":"2025-12-27T01:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:51:11","slug":"new-york-health-department-logs-71123-flu-cases-in-one-week-sets-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81976\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Health Department Logs 71,123 Flu Cases in One Week, Sets New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New York State is seeing the highest number of influenza cases ever recorded in a single week, the health department said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Data from the New York State Department of Health shows a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/nyshc.health.ny.gov\/web\/nyapd\/new-york-state-flu-tracker\" title=\"Link to Website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">71,123 positive flu cases<\/a> reported for the week ending December 20, an increase of 38% from the prior week. That\u2019s the most recorded in a single week since the department started tracking cases in 2004, the health department said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State is seeing the highest number of influenza cases ever recorded in a single week, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13453,9,11,10,49,51,50,40431,6781],"class_list":["post-81976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-industries","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81976","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=81976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}