(NewsNation) — Cities across the nation are being hit with a new variant of influenza called subclade K, which has been dubbed a “super flu,” and New York City is seeing the worst of it.
As the nation’s largest city preps for the holiday tourist rush, local health officials reported nearly 14,000 flu cases in the first week of December.
That’s a roughly 460% increase in infections from the same time last year, when the city recorded about 2,500 cases…