It's too early to predict how severe this year's flu season will be, but some early deaths have some doctors worrying it could be a bad one.
, have reported their first flu-related deaths of the 2019-2020 season. Nevada, Kentucky and Louisiana have also reported flu activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Scott Pauley said.
"A death so early in the flu season suggests this year may be worse than usual," Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer, warned in a September news release announcing the fatality there. The U.S. flu season is just beginning and can last through May. Peak infections generally hit between December and February,Predicting the duration and size of the outbreak isn't an exact science.
"Flu season is never totally predictable," said Dr. Michael Ben-Aderet, associate director of Hospital Epidemiology at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai hospital. Changes in the flu virus, environment and even "some factors we honestly don't understand" can contribute to how the flu season hits nations, he added."It's still too early to tell what this flu season might be like," he said in an email.
The last severe U.S. flu season was the 2017-2018 season with an estimated 48.8 million people falling ill and 79,400 deaths,
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