The CDC says Washington is seeing its first “high severity season" since the 2017-2018 flu season, with 296 deaths so far.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the current winter presented unusually high flu risk.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Flu activity is decreasing across Western Washington, but one doctor at UW Medicine admits the season so far has ...

Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons hasn’t seen a flu season this bad at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital since the pre-COVID-19 era. “It has been staggering to see the surge in inpatient numbers this season, knowing ...

ATLANTA — The flu season has reached its peak, according to new data from the Atlanta-based CDC. This comes just weeks after ...

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 ...

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 ...

Related CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to ... However, Siewny thinks that the flu season has now reached its peak, and cases should start subsiding soon. "We have hit the peak, at ...

One of the worst flu seasons in years has reached its peak and is improving, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.

The CDC has issued interim effectiveness estimates for the 2024-2025 seasonal influenza and 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines.

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.