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Number of people hospitalized with the flu in England quadrupled in a month NHS services, new figures show.
An average of 4,469 flu patients were in beds in England every day last week, including 211 in critical care.
That’s up 17 percent from 3,818 the previous week, when 184 were in critical care.
That’s also more than four times the number on Dec. 1, when the total was 1,098.
The figures were published in the latest weekly snapshot of hospital performance in England this winter.
The NHS deals ‘quad-demic’ of respiratory infections, a term coined to describe four conditions expected to put extra pressure on services in the winter months.
These are influenza, Covid-19, respiratory syncytial virus and norovirus.
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