Keep washing your hands, kids.
There have been 44 confirmed cases of the flu on campus, said staff nurse Carol Drews, which is “up significantly” from previous years. Only seven new cases have been confirmed this week, a number down from the 26 cases the week before.
“I feel like we’re having a slight slow down,” Drews said. “It’s hard to tell if we’ve peaked or not.”
Professor of English Kelly Franklin was sick for 11 days and had to cancel a full week of classes.
“I definitely had some kind of flu,” Franklin said in an email. “Flu season is tough. I’ve got a number of students who missed several days of classes with the same bug. But we’re going to make it through.”
The Hillsdale Hospital is also seeing no break in numbers.
“It’s almost impossible to predict,” said Doris Whorley, director of risk management at the Hillsdale Hospital. “It would seem like there’s not many people left.”
The Center for Disease Control still lists the entire nation as having a “widespread” outbreak of the flu, except Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, D.C.
Drews said the Ambler Health and Wellness Center is still administering the flu shot. She added that handwashing and staying home if ill are the best ways to prevent the disease spreading.
“I hope we’ve peaked, but it’s still early in the flu season,” she said.