MedStar Influenza Like Illness Report Through 12/27/19

So far for the month of December 2019, MedStar crews are treating an average 6.8 patients with a primary or secondary clinical impression of Influenza‐Like Illness (ILI)

That is a 46% increase from the average of 4.6 cases per day last month.

Overall, response volume for patients treated for ILI are up 32% compared to this time last season.

We encourage area residents to use the flu prevention recommendations from the CDC and Tarrant County Public Health, which can be found at: https://www.medstar911.org/2019/12/17/flu‐preventiontips‐from‐the‐cdc‐and‐tarrant‐county‐public‐health/

We also remind area residents that MedStar offers mobile flu vaccine clinics which can be scheduled here: https://www.medstar911.org/medstar‐mobile‐flu‐vaccine‐program/