On Friday, the CDC's color-coded map showed California and nearly a dozen other states shaded purple, the worst of the three shades in the very high flu level.
Influenza has been largely dormant the past two seasons, possibly due to the infection-prevention protocols put in place to ward off the coronavirus.… has a lot of potential to cause there to be significant circulating illness and to strain our healthcare system — both in terms of the number of beds that are available and the number of healthcare workers that are impacted by illness, which lowers the hospital’s capacity to take care of patients,” L.A.
“We already are seeing many individuals hospitalized for flu-related illness and complications. So please, we urge people to not just think of this as ‘just the flu.’ It’s not too late toCalifornia has recorded at least 36 flu-related deaths since the start of October, based on death certificate data. That figure is probably an undercount.also remains elevated — around 15%, higher than in any of the four prior cold-and-flu years, which run October through September.
“The current percent positivity, even while it’s dropped, still surpasses the highest percent positivity values seen for our last five seasons,” Ferrer said. “So, still an alarming number of people who areAt Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the RSV positivity rate is 23%. That’s dropped considerably from Nov. 1, when the rate was 38%. But the latest figure is still quite high and is about the same as during the peak for all of last winter, which was 24%.
At Kaiser’s Northern California hospitals, about 2.2% of hospital admissions are related to RSV, down from 2.3% last week, according to the most recent available data. Those rates are higher than in the five preceding cold-and-flu seasons., according to California death certificate data, since the start of October. The figure is probably an undercount.
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