Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-s...nada-1.4958946
Children are bearing the brunt of this year's flu season, health officials say
More than 3 times as many kids hospitalized in Canada due to influenza compared to this time last year
Nicole Ireland ? CBC News ? Posted: Dec 25, 2018 10:54 AM ET | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
Many Canadian children are spending the holidays battling the flu and other respiratory illnesses ? and an early start to the flu season might be partly to blame, pediatricians and public health officials say.
"We're seeing a tremendous amount of viral illness [in children]," said Dr. Catherine Farrell, a pediatric intensive care specialist at CHU Sainte-Justine, a pediatric and maternal care hospital in Montreal.
"Our hospitals are bursting to the seams. Our emergency rooms are really overloaded. Our inpatient units are full and we have a very high occupation rate with respiratory illness in the intensive care unit ... and it's the same with the other intensive care units here in Quebec," Farrell said...
Children are bearing the brunt of this year's flu season, health officials say
More than 3 times as many kids hospitalized in Canada due to influenza compared to this time last year
Nicole Ireland ? CBC News ? Posted: Dec 25, 2018 10:54 AM ET | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
Many Canadian children are spending the holidays battling the flu and other respiratory illnesses ? and an early start to the flu season might be partly to blame, pediatricians and public health officials say.
"We're seeing a tremendous amount of viral illness [in children]," said Dr. Catherine Farrell, a pediatric intensive care specialist at CHU Sainte-Justine, a pediatric and maternal care hospital in Montreal.
"Our hospitals are bursting to the seams. Our emergency rooms are really overloaded. Our inpatient units are full and we have a very high occupation rate with respiratory illness in the intensive care unit ... and it's the same with the other intensive care units here in Quebec," Farrell said...
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