Becker's Healthcare January 5, 2026
More than 33,000 people with influenza were hospitalized during the week ending Dec. 27, with experts anticipating at least several more weeks of increases, according to the CDC’s latest FluView report, which was published Jan. 5.
“Just looking at the trajectory of the curve, it’s really a sharp increase that we’re seeing, and it’s not anywhere close to peaking or leveling off,” Daniel Kuritzkes, MD, an infectious diseases physician at Boston-based Mass General Brigham, told NBC News in a Dec. 30 report.
At least 33,301 people in the U.S. with laboratory-confirmed flu were admitted to hospitals in the week ending Dec. 27, up from 19,000 who were admitted the week prior, according to CDC data. The weekly hospitalization...
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