{"id":69887,"date":"2025-12-24T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69887\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:48:12","slug":"flu-cases-on-the-rise-in-erie-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69887\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu Cases on the Rise in Erie | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before people make plans to gather with family and friends over the next few days, they want to make sure they are healthy.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"FLU.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1136\" height=\"675\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The strain of Influenza A made its way to Erie County a few weeks ago and it is spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at UPMC said they are seeing more cases of Influenza A and patients with respiratory issues.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Dave Hutzel with said he has been seeing three to four additional patients a day with head colds, chest colds, and bronchitis.<\/p>\n<p>He said a head or chest cold can come on gradually and take a few weeks to go away.<\/p>\n<p>But with the flu, it comes on fast and goes away within hours.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hutzel said the flu is very contagious and can be fatal for people who may have underlying health issues.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hutzel also said they have been seeing more cases of Covid as well and have been prescribing Paxlovid to treat symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before people make plans to gather with family and friends over the next few days, they want to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12429,136,138,137,9966,1057,28816,1785],"class_list":["post-69887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cdc","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-flu","tag-health","tag-illness","tag-upmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}