Nevertheless, cases will likely rise in more parts of the country and infections may be intense in some places, said Dr. Meredith McMorrow, an RSV expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, Dr. Laura Romano said kids ...
In Fig. 3, the data show that December and January recorded the highest number of patients with RSV-positive acute respiratory infections (ARIs). COVID-19, which had not exposed the population to the virus during the previous season, weakened the population’s protective immunity, leading to ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu is at very high or high levels in at least 40 states nationwide. The spike comes after cases of RSV and influenza increased before the holiday season in December 2024. Flu season in the U.S. typically occurs in the fall and...
Norovirus spread in U.S. hasn’t reached level of U.K. outbreak Norovirus infections have been largely increasing since early fall. Test positivity, as a three-week moving average, hit a season high (22.6%) the week ended Dec. 28, compared to 6% the week ended Sept. 7. Norovirus is ...
RSV cases also are starting to inch up. Last week, the CDC alerted doctors about an increase in RSV activity across some parts of the Southeast. Regional increases have usually predicted the beginning of RSV season nationally, the CDC wrote in an advisory notice. ...
“It has brought in some very vaccine-confident older adults, who, as respiratory virus season is getting underway, they’ve said, ‘Load me up,'” Applegate said. Brenda Groves, a quality improvement consultant with KFMC Health Improvement Partners, said her staff ...
Technical instructions for submission and required file formats can be found here, here, for the metadata file and in the Wiki.Round 2: Projections for the 2024-25 seasonThe goal of this RSV round is to expand on RSV modeling capabilities developed last year by the Scenario Modeling Hub to ...
MORE: Why this could be the worst flu season in the US in more than a decade Additionally, there were4,326 new hospital admissionsfor influenza the week ending Oct. 29 with a cumulative rate of 2.9 per 100,000. This is the highest rate at this point i...
Fewer say they've had a flu shot: At the time the survey was fielded (Oct. 5-12, 2023), 21% said they had received theflu shotthis season, compared with 26% in mid-October 2022 and 38% in the second week of November 2021. ...
particularly prevalent in parts of the South, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Data is limited in some jurisdictions, however, due to minimal testing in the RSV off-season....