February 27, 2024 – The Facilities for Illness Management (CDC) has continued to watch statistics and information throughout respiratory season for indicators that respiratory illness season could possibly be worse than anticipated. The CDC is monitoring quite a few components associated to respiratory sickness, together with information indicating the opportunity of an unusually extreme flu season, a number of peaks of respiratory sickness on the identical time, or the emergence of a brand new coronavirus variant inflicting extreme sickness.

As of mid-January, the CDC continued to count on that the 2024 respiratory season will possible see an identical variety of complete hospitalizations as final yr. In 2023/2022, hospital admissions remained increased than in earlier respiratory seasons previous to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the incidence of widespread sickness and strain on the healthcare system, hospitalizations for COVID-19, influenza and RSV could also be even increased this yr.

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