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Flu season appears to person travel to an early end, charismatic information suggests — arsenic doctors opportunity it was 'mild' compared to erstwhile years.
CDC figures show that for 3 consecutive weeks reports of flu-like unwellness person been beneath nan period for an progressive flu season, which usually officially ends successful May.
Other indicators for illustration hospitalizations and diligent testing are besides debased aliases declining — pinch nary authorities reporting a precocious aliases very precocious numbers of flu cases.
It suggests that nan 2023 to 2024 flu play is now over.
Flu estimates person now been beneath nan period for an progressive flu play for 3 weeks, officials said, suggesting nan play is officially over
The supra shows nan flu play 2022 to 2023, left, and 2019 to 2020, right, nan information for this play was somewhat supra that from past year, but beneath levels from 2019 to 2020
The astir caller flu play is shown arsenic nan reddish statement alongside erstwhile seasons
Dr Jay Varkey, an infectious diseases expert astatine Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, said their units felt 'strained but ne'er over-capacity'.
'It felt much for illustration a accepted respiratory microorganism play than erstwhile we had monolithic upswings of Covid confounding it,' he said.
Overall, nan CDC estimates location were astatine slightest 34million illnesses, 380,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.
That was really somewhat supra nan levels nan erstwhile season, erstwhile location were an estimated 31million illnesses, 360,000 hospitalization and 21,000 deaths.
But beneath nan figures from nan play earlier nan pandemic, erstwhile 36million illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 25,000 deaths from flu were estimated.
Flu play usually lasts until May successful nan United States, aft starting successful October and peaking astir December to February.
