Infectious disease experts forecast harsh flu season
CMA Wendy Kerley (in a file photo) administers a flu vaccine at the Cordova Shot Nurse clinic on Germantown Road. Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s ER is seeing large numbers of pediatric flu patients, said Dr. Nick Hysmith, medical director of Infection Prevention at Le Bonheur and associate professor at UTHSC. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Flu season typically peaks from December to February but Memphis-area emergency rooms are already treating an unusually large number of influenza patients.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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