The flu outbreak in Colorado may have peaked for the season.
While flu activity is still elevated, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says it appears flu season in Colorado peaked the week of Christmas and “has started a slow decline.”
Influenza-like illness reported by Kaiser Permanente for the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area decreased from 6.2 percent to 4.8 percent last week. However, influenza-like illness reported by Mesa County increased from 2.7 percent to 4.7 percent.
State officials said 1,903 people have been hospitalized for the flu in Colorado this season. The majority, 58 percent, have been diagnosed with Type A flu. Thirty-nine percent of the Colorado cases have been a variety of the flu called H3. Forty-one people have been diagnosed with type B and three people had the 2009 H1N1 strain.
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