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Covid-19: CT Flu Cases Plummet Amid Pandemic
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, health officials in Connecticut are reporting a lower than the normal number of flu cases.
On Friday, Jan. 8, the state Department of Public Health released the state's latest flu numbers which showed that, as of Saturday, Jan. 2, only 32 people had tested positive for flu in the state.
Of the 32, 11 people were hospitalized and only one person died, said officials with the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
In addition to the low number of cases, the number of people getting the flu also dropped from 1.17 percent to just .95 percent, the…
County Data: Intensive Care Covid-19 Hospitalizations Spike
The number of people in the Intensive Care Units of the Hartford and Yale New Haven healthcare systems has skyrocketed since the start of October.
About a month ago, there were two COVID-19 patients among the Yale system’s hospitals, which include Yale New Haven, Bridgeport, Lawrence and Memorial, Greenwich, and Westerly hospitals.
Today there are 22 patients in Yale’s ICUs, according to a report in the New Haven Register.
As for the Hartford health care system, there were 47 COVID-19 ICU patients on Oct. 1 and now there are 97. Hartford’s system includes Hartford, Backus, Charolette Hung…