Becker's Healthcare August 27, 2024
Leaders of the CDC, HHS and FDA held a press conference Aug. 23 about the upcoming respiratory virus season. Here are four things to know:
1. CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, acknowledged the heightened levels of COVID-19 currently sweeping parts of the country. However, severity of illness has fallen since the pandemic’s onset, so the increase in infection rates is not causing as many hospitalizations and deaths as previous years.
This fall and winter, the CDC estimates that virus levels will be similar to or lower than the 2023-24 season.
“Their outlook going forward is that this season … we can expect a similar or slightly improved in terms of peak hospitalizations that we saw last year when...
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