Flu activity remains “elevated” in the United States, but according to the new federal data published on Friday, is beginning to show signs of abetting.
The 2024-25 flu season was classified as a “high” severity season by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a complete and for all age groups, so that it was the first high since 2017-2018 since 2017-2018 The seriousness became the weather.
During the week ended on February 15, 6.8% tour in doctors’ offices were for flu -like disease, below 7.7% trips in the last two weeks, CDC data shows.
The emergency department’s visit for the flu also fell to 6.4% during the week ended on February 15, two weeks ago.
Additionally, 26.9% of the tests returned positively to the flu during the week ended on 15 February. This is 18.2% more than the extreme of the last flu season, but is less than 31.4% recorded in the last two weeks.
CDC estimates that this season has at least 33 million diseases, 430,000 hospitalized hospitalization and 19,000 deaths due to flu.
The death of at least 86 pediatric flu has been recorded so far, 18 reports have been reported with the week ending February 18.
It comes in the form of overall respiratory disease activity, which is listed as a “high” nationwide, CDC data show.
By Friday, nine states have been listed as “very high” levels of respiratory virus activity and 14 states are listed as “high”. The remaining states are listed as “medium” or “low” levels.
Comparatively, 12 states were listed as “very high” and 20 states were listed as “high” last week.
Meanwhile, although the Covid-19 activity is “elevated” in many areas of the US, CDC data shows that the emergency department’s visit is at low level and the number of positive laboratory tests is stable.
According to the CDC, respiratory synchronous virus activity was also described as “elevated”, but most areas of the US declined.
Public health experts have recommended to receive children and adults Fever And Kovid Along with vaccine -old adults also get RSV Vaccines, but coverage is “less” according to CDC.
As of 8 February, only 45.3% of adults were vaccinated against the flu and 23,1% were vaccinated with 2024–25 covid -19 vaccine. Additionally, according to CDC data, only 46.7% of adults have received RSV vaccine out of adults of 75 years and above.
About half of all the children are vaccinated with 45.8% against the flu, but only 12.1% have received the updated Covid-19 vaccine.
