Arnoldo Garcia gets help from medical assistant, Jasmin Garcia at the Neighborhood Health clinic in Madison. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Tennessee has among the highest rates of flu and flu-like illness in the nation with a post-holiday surge driving one in every ten outpatient visits at the close of 2024, according data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Northeast Tennessee experienced the state’s highest surge in respiratory illness, the weekly snapshot of flu-like illness data, which spans Dec. 22-28, showed…