Alberta’s flu season has yet to end, but it’s already ranking as the deadliest in recent memory since the mid-1990s when reliable stats were first tracked.
So far, 148 Albertans have died of influenza in the 2023 to 2024 season, which is an increase from the 123 deaths last season.
The majority of deaths are people over 70, however, there are a handful of younger people include two children under the age 10. “We were just standing there seeing the doctors putting a tube in Letezia’s mouth and that was the last time I saw her and she didn’t wake up anymore,” said Merthyl Cinco, Letezia’s mother.
She says Letezia spent six days in an Edmonton ICU before her death, calling it the most heartbreaking moment for any mother to ever experience.“Letezia did not get a flu vaccine before arriving in Canada, but she was such a healthy kid and the doctors still don’t know what happened.”Alberta has the highest flu death count documented since standardized reporting first began in 2009, but the province has also changed how it reports flu deaths.
Dr. Craig Jenne, associate professor of microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Calgary, says there’s a definite causation to why this year’s flu deaths have increased, but he says vaccination in Alberta ranks as amongst the lowest in Canada. That’s a slight decrease from the 28 per cent vaccination rate in the 2022 to 2023 season and a dramatic drop from the high of 37 per cent in 2020-21.
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