Flu and COVID-19 Push Hospitalizations Higher as RSV Cases Rise
Hospitalizations due to the flu are at the highest they’ve been in a decade, according to a telebriefing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday. With COVID-19 hospitalizations on the upswing as well, health authorities are concerned that hospitals may be overwhelmed in the weeks ahead.Since the beginning of October, about 78,000 people have been hospitalized with the flu. The number of flu hospitalizations for the week ending November 27 (19,593) was almost double that of the week before. There have already been 8.7 million illnesses and 4,500 deaths from flu, including at least 14 children, per the CDC.During the press briefing, Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the CDC, also warned that COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have been climbing across the nation since the Thanksgiving…