According to a CDC spokesperson, the week ending on Jan. 25 was the first time the percentage of deaths due to the flu was higher than the percentage of deaths due to COVID. That week, 1.7% of ...

The worst flu season the United States has had in more than a decade may have reached its peak, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data published by the agency on ...

And this year is brutal," said LaPook. Every season, the CDC's scientists test a sample of flu viruses collected from labs around the country against strains that health authorities had picked out ...

DEATHS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN EVERY COUNTY OF OUR STATE AND NATIONALLY, DHHS SAYS FLU ACTIVITY DOES CONTINUE TO DECLINE. IN FACT, THE CDC IS REPORTING THAT THEIR FLU PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT TWO ...

The flu season has reached its peak, according to new data from the Atlanta-based CDC. This comes just weeks after CDC data shows this year’s flu vaccine was less effective than most years.

It's the most since the 2009-2010 H1N1 global flu pandemic. The CDC estimated overall at least 47 million illnesses, 610,000 hospitalizations and 26,000 deaths from flu so far this season.

CDC officials have information about underlying conditions on nearly 5,200 adults who were hospitalized with flu this season, and 95% had at least one existing health problem. But among 2,000 ...