'So much flu': What to know as flu season ramps up early this year

Doctors across the country say flu season has arrived earlier than usual and is hitting people — mainly kids, so far — especially hard.“I don’t think I ever remember seeing it this severe, this soon,” said Dr.

Doctors across the country say flu season has arrived earlier than usual and is hitting people — mainly kids, so far — especially hard.

“I don’t think I ever remember seeing it this severe, this soon,” said Dr. Suchitra Rao, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora. “Our emergency department is full of kids coming in with the flu.”

Colorado is one of the nation’s current hot spots of flu activity, according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Michigan, too, is experiencing a marked increase in cases.

“Flu, flu, flu. So much flu,” said Dr. Debra Langlois, a pediatrician at University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor. “We are inundated.”