{"id":96688,"date":"2017-12-21T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=96688"},"modified":"2017-12-21T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:45:28","slug":"odh-flu-activity-rising-among-ohioans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/12\/21\/odh-flu-activity-rising-among-ohioans\/","title":{"rendered":"ODH: Flu activity rising among Ohioans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Department of Health issued a\u00a0news release\u00a0on December 8 about rising flu activity, and the geographic spread being elevated to \u201cregional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flu activity in Ohio has now been elevated to \u201cwidespread,\u201d the highest level. During last year\u2019s flu season, flu activity in Ohio didn\u2019t reach \u201cwidespread\u201d geographic spread until mid-January.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-52521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ohio-Dept.-of-Health-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"69\" \/>During the week ending December 9 (most recent data available), there were 144 new flu-associated hospitalizations in Ohio, compared to 92 the week prior, and 29 during the same week last year. So far this flu season, there have been 401 flu-associated hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>New flu-associated hospitalizations continue to trend above the five-year average (see below).<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that everyone six months and older get a flu shot as soon as possible.\u00a0 It is not too late to get a flu shot. Vaccination\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0is the best protection against seasonable flu viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Ohio Department of Health issued a\u00a0news release\u00a0on December 8 about rising flu activity, and the geographic spread being elevated to \u201cregional.\u201d Flu activity in Ohio has now been elevated to \u201cwidespread,\u201d the highest level. During last year\u2019s flu season, flu activity in Ohio didn\u2019t reach \u201cwidespread\u201d geographic spread until mid-January. During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 04:30:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}