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Stephanie Stahl<\/a> – February 18, 2020<\/p>\n PHILADELPHIA (CBS) \u2014 It\u2019s been a bad flu season for children nationwide and now officials say there is a second wave of influenza spreading. Pennsylvania has more than 72,000 confirmed cases of the flu, which is just a small reflection of the number of people who are sick.<\/p>\n The flu can be dangerous for children, especially if they have a weakened immune system or have not been vaccinated.<\/p>\n Dr. Aditi Joshi, with Jefferson Health, says it\u2019s easily spread in schools.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause it\u2019s very contagious, it can live on surfaces for a few hours even if you\u2019re not there and if you don\u2019t wash your hands, it tends to be very contagious for that reason, so kids tend to get it a lot,\u201d Dr. Joshi said.<\/p>\n The CDC says this is one of the worst flu seasons for children. Ninety-two have died since last fall, which is the highest total at this point in the season in the past decade.<\/p>\n There is now a second wave of flu cases.<\/p>\n Overall, about 14,000 Americans have died from the flu this season.<\/p>\n \u201cNow with flu A, we are seeing people feeling sicker,\u201d Dr. Joshi said.<\/p>\n Health officials say two strains of the flu, A and B, have circulated this season and it\u2019s possible to get both.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to keep the spread down, the contagion down,\u201d Dr. Joshi added.<\/p>\n https:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephanie Stahl – February 18, 2020 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) \u2014 It\u2019s been a bad flu season for children nationwide and now officials say there is a second wave of influenza spreading. Pennsylvania has more than 72,000 confirmed cases of the flu, which is just a small reflection of the number of people who are sick. The … Continue reading Health Officials: US Experiencing Worst Flu Season For Children In Past Decade As Second Influenza Wave Spreading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[245,14779,14780,11999,5984],"class_list":["post-18310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-cdc","tag-dr-aditi-joshi","tag-flu-cases","tag-flu-season","tag-influenza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18311,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18310\/revisions\/18311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}