If you thought the most recent flu season was bad, you were right

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classed it in the ‘high severity’ category

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HIGH SEASON  Last January, hospital staff saw patients in Bend, Ore., in a waiting area converted to manage more people coming in with the flu. The flu killed more than 170 children this season, the CDC reports.

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What felt like a miserable flu season this past year was, in fact, a miserable flu season.