{"id":12240,"date":"2020-04-28T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/?p=12240"},"modified":"2020-04-28T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:57:45","slug":"flu-season-at-cooper-officially-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/2020\/04\/flu-season-at-cooper-officially-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu Season at Cooper Officially Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of surveillance activities conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and our own experience where we are seeing very few patients with influenza, our infection prevention team and hospital epidemiologist have declared today, <strong>Tuesday, April 28, 2020<\/strong>, as the end of the 2019\/2020 influenza season at Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, influenza-like illness (ILI) activity remains high in our area. 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