the CDC announced. Advertisement "Data to date suggests the [flu] season has peaked," the CDC said. "However, flu-related medical visits, hospitalizations and deaths remain elevated." The CDC ...

Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the ...

As of February 22, the cumulative rate of flu hospitalizations in the US during this respiratory virus season was nearly twice as high as the rate of Covid-19 hospitalizations, according to CDC data.

Earlier data reported by the CDC suggested that this season's flu vaccines might be poorly matched against many H3N2 strains this season. Around half of infections this past fall and winter were H3N2.

And this year is brutal," said LaPook. Every season, the CDC's scientists test a sample of flu viruses collected from labs around the country against strains that health authorities had picked out ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

As of February 22, the cumulative rate of flu hospitalizations in the US during this respiratory virus season was nearly twice as high as the rate of Covid-19 hospitalizations, according to CDC data.