More than 80,000 died of the flu last year, with a majority of the victims being over the age of 65.
The high death rate is unusual for what is considered a normal flu season rather than a pandemic.
The dominate strain this past season was H3N2, the most deadly of the four common strains.
Today on All Sides, we will discuss how to stay protected from the flu, report cards on physical activity for children and more.
Guest:
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health
Peter Katzmarzyk, Chair, U.S. Report Card Research Advisory Committee, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, author of "The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"