1. @CDCgov has been told of 4 more children who died from #flu this season, bringing the 2022-23 total to 115 so far. There have been years with a higher pediatric death toll, but it's tragic to see so many kids die from flu. No word on their vaccination status. (Graph = mine)
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2. @CDCgov's latest FluView report, out today, reports that #flu activity is low in most parts of the country. In the few places where it isn't low, it has declined from the previous week. It remains to be seen if flu season is effectively over or if there's more to come.
3. Oddly, though, the epi curve has not yet slipped below the epidemic threshold. Strange to see it skip along just above the threshold for 5 weeks running.
4. This season has been an #H3N2 dominant season. But where earlier in the season H3 viruses made up 75%-80% of typed viruses, now it's more like 55% of the #flu A viruses. There's been a slight uptick, percentage-wise, in flu B, but the actual numbers are small.
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