{"id":80328,"date":"2026-01-07T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:57:05","slug":"upmc-finds-a-flu-uptick-cases-reported-in-erie-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80328\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC Finds a Flu Uptick Cases Reported in Erie Pennsylvania | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just the past 10 days, doctors have reported an uptick in flu case numbers, and just in December alone, 10% of cases were influenza.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Caroline Colleran, the Chief of Emergency Services at Saint Vincent Hospital, stated they have seen an increase in COVID and RSV cases as well.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Donald Yealy, Chief Medical Officer, shared, &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen an uptick in respiratory cases at UPMC facilities over the past few weeks. It&#8217;s not too late to get a flu shot, which can lessen the severity of symptoms if you do get sick.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In just the past 10 days, doctors have reported an uptick in flu case numbers, and just in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7619,9966,12428,28,30,29,40751,31770],"class_list":["post-80328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-covid-19","tag-flu","tag-influenza","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-respiratory-illness","tag-rsv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80328","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=80328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}