During flu season in Alabama, emergency department visits were up 101 percent less than two weeks ago according to the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH).
The Tuscaloosa County Health Department is hosting a drive-thru flu clinic Wednesday in their parking lot at 2350 Hargrove Road East in Tuscaloosa from 7:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., or until they run out of vaccine.
With an uptick in colds during the flu season it can be hard for stores to keep medicine on the shelves. Some alternatives can be as simple as switching cold medicines.
While we are seeing an early flu season, the state is not seeing a post-Thanksgiving surge in flu hospitalization. However, that is not the case for COVID-19.
The flu has now killed more than a dozen people in Alabama. The Alabama Department of Public health saying 10 adults and three children have died from the flu this season.
The flu season runs from October through May and by the end of October, the state was being slammed with cases. A map from the CDC showed the flu was spreading at a high level in Alabama.
Tuscaloosa’s VA Medical Center is currently operating a drive-thru flu clinic in an effort to address veterans' in need of flu shots and also get them safely during the coronavirus pandemic.
Just days into the flu season, people are already being treated for the virus in Birmingham and the state is monitoring one area with “significant influenza activity.”
