ODH: Flu in Air, Especially Here
January 4, 2024 8:55AM EST
FILE – A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans’ Community Resource Center in 2022. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – Influenza is spreading around the state, and we’re at ground zero.
317 people spent some time in an Ohio hospital with severe flu symptoms in a recent one-week period, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
Most of the flu cases are reported out of northeast and east central Ohio.
A flu shot is recommended.