Noah Joyner, 11, said he just felt bad. Runny nose, cough, fever.
Sure enough, the Tisdale fifth-grader had influenza and this wasn’t the first time.
“Every year they get it,” Richetta Joyner, Noah’s mom said of her son, and two young grandkids.
And while she didn’t take any chances — making sure the kids saw the school-based health clinic and stayed home until they felt better — Joyner can’t help shuddering when she thinks of the high number of pediatric deaths this season.
“It brings tears to my eyes,” Joyner said. “They are too young.”
This has been an awful flu season on both a global and local scale. In Connecticut, 97 people have died from flu-related illness this season, including at least two children — 6-year-old Emma Splan of Norwalk and 10-year-old Nico Mallozzi of New Canaan.
Nationwide, the CDC reports that at least 84 children have died from flu-related illness this season.
Source :- ctpost
Sure enough, the Tisdale fifth-grader had influenza and this wasn’t the first time.
“Every year they get it,” Richetta Joyner, Noah’s mom said of her son, and two young grandkids.
And while she didn’t take any chances — making sure the kids saw the school-based health clinic and stayed home until they felt better — Joyner can’t help shuddering when she thinks of the high number of pediatric deaths this season.
“It brings tears to my eyes,” Joyner said. “They are too young.”
This has been an awful flu season on both a global and local scale. In Connecticut, 97 people have died from flu-related illness this season, including at least two children — 6-year-old Emma Splan of Norwalk and 10-year-old Nico Mallozzi of New Canaan.
Nationwide, the CDC reports that at least 84 children have died from flu-related illness this season.
Source :- ctpost
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