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This Year’s Super Bad Flu Season In 20 Maps

Graphics by Ella Koeze Influenza isn’t just widespread — the strains in circulation are also severe. As the following chart illustrates, the share of doctor visits for flu and flu-like illnesses has not been this high since the 2009-10 season, when the flu hit early and hard but then quickly declined. (The flu season typically […]

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Got A Flu Shot? Great. Wash Your Hands, Too.

If you’re headed to an airport, train station, shopping mall or other public space swarming with people this holiday season, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll come into contact with the flu. (That recluse life is looking better and better, I know.) Flu season is just starting (see the map below for where it’s hitting […]

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