Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Michigan Healthcare

00000178-73c0-ddab-a97a-7bf830af0000From debate over childhood vaccinations to the changing business of hospital finance, IPR has the stories of hospitals and public health that affect northern Michigan.

Stats backing up the claim that this is a bad flu season

Michigan Public | By Stateside Staff

Published January 7, 2015 at 4:59 PM EST

It seems like everyone is talking about the flu.

Dr. Matthew Davis is chief medical executive for the state Department of Community Health, and a professor at the University of Michigan.

Popular buzz has pegged this as a pretty miserable flu season. We ask whether the statistics back this up.

Listen to our conversation above.