Seven million sickened as flu season worsens

By Kimberly Leonard

Published January 11, 2019 4:00pm ET

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Seven million sickened as flu season worsens — Henry Beverly, 73, battles the flu while tended to by nurse Kathleen Burks at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, Ga., Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. "I believe if I stand up right now I'd just collapse," said Beverly after days of battling the flu. Beverly came to the emergency room earlier in the week and was scheduled to go home after being treated before his symptoms took a quick turn for the worse. "I felt like my body was just going to blow up. A lot of people don't realize what the flu really is. It takes a lot to put me on my feet. I believe I would have died if I went home." | (David Goldman/AP)

Flu season has picked up in recent weeks, and officials estimate that between 6.2 and 7.3 million people have gotten sick since October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.

The agency’s data, which encompasses Oct. 1, 2018 to Jan. 5, 2019, shows half of those who got sick went to see the doctor, and that between 69,300 to 83,500 people have been hospitalized.

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