Flu cases in state may have peaked
Death toll, however — at 163 for people under 65 — is four times higher than at the same time in 2017
State health officials said Friday that 36 Californians under 65 died of the flu in the first week of February — more than in any other week this season.
The flu season nationwide is considered among the worst in a decade. Hospitals in California set up tents to triage flu patients, many pharmacies ran out of flu medicines and the death toll has been unusually high. Gabriella Chabot, a student at La Reina High School in Thousand Oaks, was among those who have died of complications of the flu.
She would have turned 15 in less than a week, her father, Michael Chabot, posted on Facebook on Friday.
“Today I experienced the day that no parent should,”
Chabot wrote. “We are heartbroken.”
In total, 163 Californians under 65 have died of the flu
The flu season nationwide is considered among the worst in a decade. Hospitals in California set up tents to triage flu patients, many pharmacies ran out of flu medicines and the death toll has been unusually high. Gabriella Chabot, a student at La Reina High School in Thousand Oaks, was among those who have died of complications of the flu.
She would have turned 15 in less than a week, her father, Michael Chabot, posted on Facebook on Friday.
“Today I experienced the day that no parent should,”
Chabot wrote. “We are heartbroken.”
In total, 163 Californians under 65 have died of the flu
