There was a slight decline in flu infections across the state last week, but the CDC is saying that doesn’t mean the season has peaked.<\/p>\n
“We’re not seeing that it’s over yet, no,” said Anthony Ciarletta, owner of Grassy Sprain Pharmacy.<\/p>\n
According to New York State data, for the week ending on Jan. 3, there were more than 28,000 cases, which is a decline from the week prior.<\/p>\n
Newly released data for flu activity from the CDC does show a decline, but officials say that could be due to changes in health care seeking or reporting during the holidays.<\/p>\n
Health officials say the main type of flu they’re seeing is Influenza A. Last week in Westchester County, there were nearly 1,700 reported cases; 1,500 of those were for the specific strain.<\/p>\n
“This year, the severity of the flu seems to be a bit worse,” said Dr. Vasilios Pitsios, with Urgent Care of Westchester, “We’ve seen higher fever episodes and a lot of complications, especially bronchitis.”<\/p>\n
According to state data, there have been two influenza-associated pediatric deaths reported this flu season. It’s important to note that the influenza infection may not have been the primary cause of death.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to the state Department of Health to ask where these deaths happened but was told that information can’t be released due to privacy reasons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a slight decline in flu infections across the state last week, but the CDC is saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3930,32315,31753,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-95555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-cdc","tag-flu","tag-flu-season","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95555","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=95555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}