Thread by @MackayIM

#Flu and #SARSCoV2 in New South Wales (NSW), Australia to week ending 25JUN2022.
😷 #SARSCoV2 total positive numbers now rising again, as #flu positives decline.

😷#SARSCoV2 rate is ~100/100,000 population for all age groups and steady while for #flu, it varies by age, up to ~60/100,00 for those aged 0-9 years, and declining

😷In terms of emergency department presentations, #flu-like illness is declining while #COVID19 presentations have stopped declining - slight⬆

😷Test positive from #SARSCoV2 was 16% up from 13% last week.
😷For #flu it was 9% down from 15%.
🧬Flu A/H3N2 remains the main influenza virus

🧬Omicron BA.5 has now surpassed BA.2 as the main variant; BA.4 in 3rd place

🦠As for the other respiratory viruses, still a huge amount of activity in these trends.
AdVs rising. HMPV and PIVs high and steady. RSV (respiratory syncytial virus; maybe too early to say this), EVs & RVs declining.

🛌Bronchiolitis, a clinical diagnosis of infants usually associated with RSV, continued to increase with 695 (up from 627) presentations this week in children aged 0-4 years. Of these presentations, 41% (~285) were admitted to hospital.

Thanks, as always, to @NSWhealth for always reliably producing Australia's best set of data on respiratory viruses and keeping your community informed about their illnesses.
Graphs and data from: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/cov…