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Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This national flu epidemic is getting worse by the day and today bostons, population 600,000 plus, declared a Public Health emergency after the virus killed more than a dozen people. At least three more states montana, south dakota, and arizona are now reporting widespread flu, bringing the total to 44 states. And the c. D. C. Said the percentage of people going to the hospital for treatment has doubled in the past month. We asked dr. Jon lapook to give us the latest. Reporter the emergency in boston was declared after confirmed cases of tphrur reached 700. There were just 70 at this time last year. Across the state, 18 patients have died. Dr. Barbara ferrer is the executive director of the boston Public Health commission. In the last two weeks alone weve doubled our number. So if w ....
Boston. So we really need to get ahead of this at this point in time. Reporter and to do that, officials are urging vaccination for everyone six months and older. Clinics will be giving free shots this weekend. Lehigh Valley Hospital in pennsylvania is getting as many as 100 patients a day with flu like symptoms. A tent has been set up to handle the less serious cases. Nurse terry burger is in charge of infection control. We need a full functioning, active Emergency Department for the community, and this just enables us to see the patients that are not as sick. So mild illness, mild injuries see them quickly and then discharge them. Reporter 60 miles south in chadds ford, the entire coan family got the vaccine, but eightyearold alex came down with the flu anyway. You cough a lot, kind of sneeze a little. You want to lay in bed all day. As a mom, i was very disappointed ....
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