Respiratory virus season is ramping up in California, prompting health officials to renew their calls for residents to get vaccinated in hopes of reducing potential pressure on health systems across the state. While conditions so far are nowhere near as daunting as last autumn — when hospitals labored under the strain of a “tripledemic” spawned […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning health providers that there is an “urgent need” to increase vaccinations against influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). In an alert published Thursday, the agency cautioned that low vaccination rates, coupled with ongoing increases in national respiratory disease activity, could lead to more severe disease […]
COVID-19 and flu levels continue to increase but CDC director believes US has hit peak of RSV Seventeen states are seeing “high” or “very high” levels of respiratory illness activity as COVID-19 and flu hospitalizations increase across the U.S., new federal data shows. Weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations rose to 23,432 for the week ending Dec. 9, […]