Flu-Stricken SLP High School Student Has '50-50' Chance: WCCO
She was sickened Christmas Eve and is struggling for her life at Minneapolis Children's Hospital, WCCO reported.
Carly Christenson
Friday, January 4, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Flu-Stricken SLP High School Student Has '50-50' Chance: WCCO
She was sickened Christmas Eve and is struggling for her life at Minneapolis Children's Hospital, WCCO reported.
A St. Louis Park teenager who is fighting for her life against a flu infection "stands a 50-50 chance of survival as of Thursday," according to WCCO-AM. “We’ve had a couple of the doctors tell us point-blank that our daughter is the sickest kid in the state right now, if not the region,” Sandy Christenson of St. Louis Park told WCCO. Carly, 14, plays basketball at St. Louis Park High School and came home with a bad sore throat on Dec. 20. Four days later she was in Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, where she is battling Influenza A, WCCO reported. Carly's parents, Sandy and Sean Christenson, said donated blood products from more than 100 people have helped keep Carly alive and urged people to donate. Read and listen to the full WCCO-AM …
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Sixty Flu-Related Deaths Now Reported In Minnesota
More than a week after Carly Christenson died, people continue to be hospitalized as a result of the flu.
Updated 5:30 p.m. Jan. 17: The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reports that there have been 60 flu-related deaths in Minnesota since the beginning of the flu season. Thirty-three people died from Jan. 6 to 12, according to the MDH. Those include Carly Christenson of St. Louis Park, who died Jan. 8. According to a Fox 9 news report, 88 percent of the deaths were patients age 65 or older, making up 53 of the 60 fatal cases this season. There were no deaths in the past week involving patients younger than 24. A total of 1,842 have been hospitalized due to "laboratory-confirmed influenza" since the flu season started, according to the MDH. Two hundred fifty-four flu outbreaks in schools have been reported so far, with 92 just last week. A…
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Kevira Voegele
3:04 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Hi @E. Hessian: You brought up a very good point. We received a statement from the Archdiocese and did not contact each church in each Patch. Yes, we should've. I'm correcting the story to indicate that Holy Family does not use a communal cup. We certainly didn't mean to imply that any church would be putting its congregants at risk. Some Catholics believe the common cup is blessed and therefore … more ›