With holiday gathering season here, health officials are predicting an upswing of illnesses – likely flu and possibly COVID-19, moving into December. Medical officials have been preparing for a heightened winter illness season and those preparations seem to be paying off. El Campo Memorial Hospital Emergency Department Supervisor Tonya Metz says “Flu cases are higher than they’ve seen in the last couple years”. The Center for Disease
Control reported, “the cumulative hospitalization rate is higher than the rate observed in week 45 during every previous season since 2010-2011.