Sentence examples for harsh flu from inspiring English sources
It's turning out to be a particularly harsh flu season.
The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows signs that this harsh flu season appears to be leveling off.
As an article in the science journal Nature noted in February, Google Flu Trends estimated that nearly 11 percent of Americans were ill at the January peak — nearly double the 6 percent reported later by the C.D.C. Apparently, the Google algorithms were unable to sift out news reports and social media messages warning of a harsh flu season, which sent flu-related searches spiking.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would furlough about 61percentt of its staff — roughly 8,400 people — in the midst of one of the harshest flu seasons in recent years.
We survived not only the 1918 flu epidemic, but also the even harsher black plague of the 14th century.
Business conditions, it said in a statement, were "starkly harsher" than a year ago, in part because of the flu outbreak in the spring, which hit leisure travel hard.
Influenza is widespread across the United States and this flu season is shaping up to be especially harsh, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
I have contemplated doing the same with my flu-ridden friends, but that seems a bit harsh.
This year's flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting older people from the harshest strain this season, proving only 9 percent effective, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
