This Year’s Deadly Flu Season Has Finally Peaked, CDC Says

Mar 03, 2018, 04:04 PM

After months of record-breaking widespread illness, flu season has finally peaked, according to CDC officials.

"It looks like we peaked in early February, based on our data" CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund told TIME. That doesn't mean flu season is over, though.

"Even though it looks like flu activity is decreasing in some parts of the country, there's still a lot of it out there," Nordlund says. "We're not out of the woods yet.