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Has there been a flu season in recent history that caused the hospital system to collapse?
by pbourke 5y ago
Has there been a flu season in recent history that caused the hospital system to collapse?
- nradov 5y agoHospitals in some areas were overwhelmed with influenza cases as recently as 2018. https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/ https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
- ethbr0 5y agoFor reference, when I looked up the numbers, influenza hospitalizations (estimated, total annual US) vary from around 150,000 to 550,000, depending on the year and strain. So yes, year to year has a lot of variance.