United States Influenza testing, season to date (18 weeks, MMWR 40 to 4)
Five-year average: 75,356 cases; 13.21% positive
Last year: 128,526; 18.25%
This year: 1,499; 0.18%
Season-to-date flu hospitalizations down 98.2% from last year.
Flu hospitalizations total (18 weeks) in FluSurv-NET is 155. Through week 4 last year (17 weeks) it was 8,633.
Rate last year: 29.7 per 100K
This year: 0.5 per 100K
Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) continues to track lower than the mild 2015-16 and 2011-12 seasons, and is now declining when it was rising in those years.
Still just one U.S. pediatric flu death this season.
Vax by age tracker updated and I added three major cities: NYC, Chicago, and Philly. (Their numbers are not good.) docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Also note prior to today I had the denominators incorrect for Pennsylvania, because their state dash excludes Philly. Philly population is now subtracted from statewide Pa.
See NYC's miserable numbers helps explain why Cuomo won't release state vax demographics.