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 ...
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 and those aged 0 to 4 at 2.7 per 100,000. Hospital adm...
“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 elderly.” The overall rate of hospitalizations for flu is about...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the United States' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said there have been reports of spot shortages of the generic version of Tamiflu, as a result of the flu hitting everywhere all at once. The CDC said the hospitalization rate for...
“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. ...
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...
"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...
Early estimates on the effectiveness of this year’s flu vaccines indicate they may be less effective at preventing hospitalization than in years past, based on data from South America, where the annual flu season occurs earlier. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...
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 ...
Initially, it looked like it might be a bad flu season. The virustook offin early November as COVID-19 and another respiratory virus,RSV, roiled emergency departments. Among kids,flu-related hospitalization ratesin November and December were as high as any seen in recent years, Flannery said...