Colorado Questions About Flu Season And Coronavirus, Answered
This year, the possibility of a flu and COVID-19 outbreak in the fall worries health care professionals because of the stress it could place on hospitals.
“If you get sick and you're the one that needs an ICU bed, we want to make sure that you've got one,” said Emily Cheshire, doctor of nursing practice at the University of Colorado College of Nursing at Anschutz Medical Campus.
In the 2017-2018 flu season, 61,000 people died from the flu and more than 810,000 people ended up in the hospital,