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The 2024-2025 flu shot protects against three strains — H3N2, H1N1 and a flu B strain — but uptake has been very poor this season, Dr. David Warren, chief of the division of infectious disease ...
Over 160,000 people this season have landed in the hospital from flu complications, CDC estimates. More than 6,600 have died. Here's the symptoms.
According to the report, most flu statistics in the U.S. are trending up, including the positive flu infections this week (31.6%), the patients admitted to hospitals with the flu this week (48,661 ...
Flu is not the only virus floating around this time of year. The CDC is also tracking COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity on a weekly basis. Follow The Flu Trends On weather ...
On January 5, a confirmed case of a new, more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant from the United Kingdom was reported in Georgia. The patient is an 18-year-old male with no travel history. [5] Also on January 5, the U.S. passed 21 million cases, just four days after passing 20 million cases. [6]
Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the nation, the numbers show.
According to preliminary burden estimates for the 2019–2020 flu season (October 1, 2019 through April 4, 2020) there were between 39 and 56 million flu cases; 18–26 million doctor visits; 410,000 to 740,000 hospitalizations, and between 24,000 and 62,000 deaths.
Nearly a third of flu tests came back positive during the week ending on Feb. 1, the CDC said, compared with a quarter of tests the previous week. The agency estimated that there had been at least ...