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The flu season is off to a slow start in Minnesota this year.
Jeff Sanders, state influenza surveillance coordinator at the Department of Health (MDH), says activity is low right now, but he anticipates it will pick up over the next few months, so “now is really the great time to get vaccinated to make sure that you’re protected.”
Sanders says there were around eight thousand hospitalizations last season in Minnesota.

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