MORNING UPDATE: Hundreds line up for flu shots at Essentia

Perhaps it was all the flu talk in the news. Perhaps it was the fact that kids had an unplanned day off of school. Whatever the reason, an Essentia Health flu-shot clinic — announced just the day before — attracted about as many people on Friday as normally come for more than a week’s worth of clinics in the fall.

By: News Tribune staff, Duluth News Tribune