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US influenza statistics by flu season. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page called "Disease Burden of Flu": "Each year CDC estimates the burden of influenza in the U.S. CDC uses modeling to estimate the number of flu illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths related to flu that occurred in a given season.
The 2023-2024 flu season was "moderately severe," and caused an estimated 40 million illnesses and 28,000 deaths, per the CDC. "Last year, we had over 200 pediatric deaths from flu, that was a ...
Seasonal flu activity is elevated across most of the country, according to the latest reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and experts say this is expected to continue for ...
“We’re probably looking at a 20- to 30,000 death flu season. That’s pretty significant." Ten pediatric deaths were entered into the national database this week, bringing the total so far ...
At the time, there had been 400 outbreaks of flu that season in Minnesota's schools, and 130 outbreaks in long-term care facilities, with one child in the state dying. Additionally, Klobuchar continued to push the US Food and Drug Administration to fix the national IV bag and saline shortage, for adversely affecting the treatment of flu symptoms.
The cost of a flu season in lives lost, medical expenses and economic impact can be severe. In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that the seasonal flu causes 290,000 to 650,000 annual deaths worldwide. [31] In 2003, the WHO estimated that the cost of flu epidemics in the United States was US$71–167 billion per year. [32]
There have been more than 9 million illnesses recorded across the U.S. this flu season. Cases are spiking in several states, forcing hospitals to issue restrictions (Getty Images/iStock)
From survey data CDC estimated that 51.8% of persons six months and older were vaccinated during the 2019–20 flu season, an increase of 2.6 percentage points from the prior season. [5] FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee selected the following strains for the vaccine: [6] an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus