Flu Season Hits Hard: A Tale of Coughs, Conspiracies, and Complicated Care

Flu Season: Coughing Up Trouble in Seoul and Beyond Seoul, South Korea As the winter chill sets in, residents are not just bundling up in their coziest sweaters and cranking up the heat; they’re also heading to hospitals in droves, coughing and sneezing their way to emergency rooms. The latest data shows that the number of flu patients in hospitals has quadrupled in just one month, prompting health officials to declare this season’s flu outbreak as one of the most severe in recent memory....

January 3, 2025 Â· 3 min Â· 537 words Â· Min-Jae Kim, Soo-Yeon Park