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...KIDDIE FLU The flu is lousy for everyone, but doctors report that otherwise healthy tots under age 2 who get the bug are a whopping 12 to 25 times as likely as older kids to land in the hospital with complications like pneumonia. The finding may prod health officials to consider adding flu vaccine to the arsenal of inoculations young children already endure. In the meantime, parents can help protect their progeny--at least indirectly--by getting vaccinated...
...rush of cranky customers began around Christmas. Just as hordes of frazzled parents were descending on shopping malls, crowds of feverish, aching bodies were flooding the emergency department at Thunderbird Samaritan Medical Center outside Phoenix, Ariz., desperate for relief from this winter's nasty, widespread strain of flu. On many days, a couple of hundred patients, from wheezing senior citizens to crying babies in their weary mothers' arms, clogged the waiting room, sitting for up to six hours to see a doctor. It didn't take long for the 35 beds in Thunderbird's ED, and many on its other...
This winter's flu onslaught has added another talking point to the health-care debate: the declining state of emergency services. Certainly the doctors are good, and the equipment gets better every year; in fact, the number of trauma centers that can deal with serious injuries is on the rise. But the ability to deliver service is being compromised. Medicare funds have been slashed as the number of uninsured patients has skyrocketed. A lack of beds and skilled nurses hasn't helped matters. In the past decade the total number of EDs in the U.S. has dropped from about...
...live with or care for an elderly person. It'll take two weeks for any appreciable protection to build up, and some areas have already run out of vaccine. In the meantime, wash your hands a lot and pop some vitamin C. It may not keep Mr. Flu from knocking on your door, but it can't hurt...
...more on the flu, visit www.cdc.gov or time.com/personal You can send e-mail for Christine to gorman@time.com