Opinion: The flu could send our health care system into overdrive this winter. This drug offers some hope.

A study published in the July 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine
found that the anti-influenza drug baloxavir marboxil significantly reduced
transmission of influenza among people living in the same house.

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