As flu deaths finally slow, the season’s death toll is emerging

This year’s late flu season has turned out to be the deadliest in recent memory. Now, as test positivity rates have finally come down, and weekly deaths are starting to slow, the overall death toll is emerging.

At least 1,504 people died from complications of the flu by the 13th week of this year, the week ending Mar. 29, according to the most recent weekly respiratory virus report from the California Department of Public Health.

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