Get it saying its not too late. Usually a curse of midwin ter, this year the flu struck more than a month early. 24 states are experiencing high influenzalike illness. Hospitals, including this one in pennsylvania, have elected tents to treat the sick. All of a sudden like out of nowhere we started seeing 50 60 cases of flu a day. Dr. Mark rosenberg is in charge of the emergency room at st. Josephs in patterson, new jersey. The flu kicks you in the butt. It makes you weak. Any other medical problem on top of that is going to be exacerbated because you have the flu. In severe cases antiviral drugs can lessen symptoms. The cdc says the best prevention is the flu vaccine. Nearly 130 million doses of it have been distributed. We hope it means theyll get milder flu. Theres some evidence to that. So if you get vaccinated but still come down with the flu, it may be that you get a milder version of the flu. The cdc says the flu vaccine is effective in 62 of the cases. In mentor ohio janitors a