Flu Season Begins Early, Could Peak By Christmas, CDC Says.

reports the flu season “is off to an early start this year” and could “peak over the holidays,” a new CDC analysis indicates. The piece says the “wildly unpredictable” flu viruses leave experts uncertain of precisely how extensive the season will be, but the CDC’s weekly flu reports offer updated predictions and data, with the most recent report showing “that Louisiana and Oklahoma already have widespread flu activity and some nearby states are heating up too.” According to CDC influenza epidemiologist Lynnette Brammer, who leads flu reporting, “If it continues to go up like it has the last couple of weeks, yeah, we could have a fair amount of activity right at Christmas.” https://www.statnews.com/2017/11/30/flu-season-update/