North Carolina is seeing more flu activity than at any time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. "It's easy to forget because everyone has been so focused on COVID," said an epidemiologist at UNC-Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health. So far one person has died of the flu in North Carolina this year, an adult in the western part of the state. That person tested positive for flu but negative for COVID-19, the DHHS said in announcing the death. Other information about the person such as name, hometown, county, gender or age is not released, a state policy to protect the privacy of the deceased. read more https://www.wral.com/flu-cases-on-the-rise-adult-in-nc-is-first-to-die-this-season/20034696/
