COVID-19 hospitalization rates arestill elevated for the oldest and youngest Americans. Those aged 65 and older have the highest weekly rate at 13.9 per 100,000 followed by those aged 50 to 64 at 3.1 per 100,000
While flu continues to ramp up, RSV has shown signs of slowing nationwide, but test positivity rates are still higher than they've been in years, and cumulative hospitalization rates are about 10 times higher than typical for this point in the season. Less than two ...
1 and Nov. 26, the rate of hospitalization for flu in the United States was 16.6 per 100,000 people. In the past 10 years, the cumulative rate during the same week of the year typically range from 0.1 to 2 per 100,000. Article content COVID-19 cases have risen following the Thanks...
Mom's powerful message after daughter dies from flu08:25 “And this week for the first time, we have data on initial hospitalizations,” Brammer said. “The range of hospitalization is still low, however. As you would suspect with a H3N2 season, thehighest rate right now is in the elderl...
“Having an updated booster that more closely matches circulating strains is an important tool for high-risk individuals, who still remain at risk for severe disease, hospitalization and death," saidDr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with Johns Hopkins' Center for Health Security in Baltimore. ...
"CDC recommends that health care providers continue to administer influenza vaccine because influenza activity is ongoing and the vaccine can still prevent illness, hospitalization and death associated with currently circulating influenza viruses, or influenza viruses that might circulate later in the sea...
The agency’sWild to Mild initiative, launched at the start of the 2023–24 flu season, aimed to inform the public that while getting immunized against the flu doesn’t guarantee you won’t catch an influenza virus, it can protect you fromsevere illness, hospitalization, and death. With the...
Walensky said that even when the vaccine doesn’t closely match the circulating flu strains, “We see a 35% decrease in rates of hospitalization … which really just emphasizes, when we do have a good match, how much more effective it will be.” CDC data shows that nearly 20,000 people ...
From November to December 2023, US hospitalization rates increased by 200% for influenza, 51% for COVID-19, and 60% for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among all age groups, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory. Amid growing concern, the CDC issued the...
While severe outcomes for Covid-19 have decreased over the years, it is still not just a cold, or even like the flu. The latest CDC data shows that Covid-19 hospitalization rates have consistently been at least twice as high as they’ve been for flu this respiratory virus season,...