Influenza continues to rage in the new year, care infarction threatens: ‘As if half of the Netherlands is sick in bed’

“It seems as if half of the Netherlands is sick in bed.” The flu Pandemic continues and even threatens to cause a care stroke at this rate, warns Leon van den Toorn, chairman of the Dutch Association of Physicians for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis (NVALT). “And the effect of the holidays is yet to come.”