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Colorado doctors report bizarre spring flu season
by: Kim Posey
Posted: Jun 1, 2022 / 05:55 PM MDT
Updated: Jun 1, 2022 / 05:55 PM MDT
AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Flu season in Colorado usually peaks between December and February, but this year it peaked in the spring.
“We actually saw a huge rise in cases in May, and it was influenza A,” said Dr. Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth. “There’s A and B. Usually, we see B in the spring, not A, and it was behaving a lot like what we normally see in December and January.”
Barron said there were three to four times as many cases in April and May as there were in December and January — “which again is the opposite of what we normally see, which is why it was so striking,” she said...
Colorado doctors report bizarre spring flu season
by: Kim Posey
Posted: Jun 1, 2022 / 05:55 PM MDT
Updated: Jun 1, 2022 / 05:55 PM MDT
AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Flu season in Colorado usually peaks between December and February, but this year it peaked in the spring.
“We actually saw a huge rise in cases in May, and it was influenza A,” said Dr. Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth. “There’s A and B. Usually, we see B in the spring, not A, and it was behaving a lot like what we normally see in December and January.”
Barron said there were three to four times as many cases in April and May as there were in December and January — “which again is the opposite of what we normally see, which is why it was so striking,” she said...
