Medscape January 15, 2025
January 13, 2025 — Most US states are reporting high or very high flu-like activity, while COVID-19 rates remain lower than this time last year.
The nation isn’t out of the woods yet, though, in terms of seeing another tripledemic or even quad-demic.
So far this year, the CDC estimates that 5.3 million people nationwide have had the flu, and the virus has hospitalized 63,000 people, as well as contributed to 2700 deaths, including 11 children.
Nearly 19% of influenza tests are positive, as are about 13% of tests for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and 7% of COVID tests, according to CDC data.
Those flu and RSV rates are similar to what was seen about this time last year, but...
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