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Since October 2024, the CDC estimates that the flu has killed at least 16,000 people so far this season, while COVID-19's ...

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Three of the viruses — flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are respiratory viruses and spread from person to person through germ-filled ...

Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections ...

Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the ...

A common cold is an infection of the nose and throat. A cold is caused by a virus that causes inflammation of the membranes ...

For the week ending on Jan. 25, nearly 1.7% of all deaths nationwide were attributed to the flu, compared to roughly 1.5% being the result of COVID-19, according to CDC data. Rates of influenza ...

Flu deaths have surpassed COVID-19 in California for the first time since the pandemic, with concerns over low vaccination ...

That’s higher than the peak of the “tripledemic” winter of 2022-23, when California’s hospitals were stressed by simultaneous high circulation of flu, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus ...

That cemented a partisan divide in vaccine attitudes, extending now beyond COVID to other shots, even some embraced broadly before the pandemic. The share of the US population getting flu shots ...

The surge in flu cases also comes amid concerns about high infection rates for other viruses including RSV, COVID-19 and the gastrointestinal bug norovirus. Still, health officials say flu cases ...