Cases of the influenza virus (flu) and COVID-19 are going up. On Monday, 418 patients checked into the CHOC emergency department, a record number of patients for the hospital.
"So many patients everywhere we've never seen anything like this," Vice President of Patient Care at CHOC Dr. Melanie Patterson told CBSLA Orange County Michele Gile."In fact I started at CHOC 35 years ago, I've not seen so many patients even during our busiest times during the winter."
Two-year-old Anthony Vasquez left CHOC this afternoon after being checked out for pneumonia. His parents took him to the hospital after his cough continued to get worse. Flu cases are clearly on the rise and this flu season is expected to be a bad one this time around. There weren't any last year at CHOC but already this season the hospital has treated 120 patients with the flu.
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