Flu

The fear of a “tripledemic” is rising as cases of flu, coronavirus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surge across the U.S.

The mask mandate has gone back into effect at all 11 of New York City’s public hospitals following a rise in reported cases of the coronavirus, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday it is communicating with Chinese health officials about the explosion of pediatric respiratory diseases and pneumonia in northern China.

Hospitals in China are reportedly grappling with cases of respiratory illnesses, and the situation has some American medical professionals concerned.

Three border crossers living in a Chicago police station were reportedly taken to a hospital Tuesday after experiencing flu-like symptoms. 

Japan is struggling with an exceptionally bad outbreak of seasonal influenza among school children, prompting a number of schools across the country to suspend classes.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Heather Boushey said that “it’s actually quite remarkable” our labor force participation rate is as good as it is “given long COVID, given how many families

Emergency departments in California’s San Diego County are reportedly seeing an overwhelming number of patients as flu season ramps up.

The British government has launched a Covid booster and flu jab drive, with pregnant women, ethnic minorities, and “individuals with long term health conditions” targeted in particular.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is now warning of a “pretty bad flu season,” urging Americans to get flu shots when they become available this year.

One of Germany’s ruling coalition parties has said that forced masking should be brought back this winter to help fight the flu.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we are “going to enter a phase where we’re not going to kill COVID the way we wish, but we’re going to learn to live with it, the way we

Specialist infectious disease doctors warned Tuesday freedom from masks could increase common cold and flu resurgence.

Thousands in South Korea were injected with compromised flu vaccines in recent weeks, Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) admitted on Sunday.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Americans were “learning to live” with COVID-19 just like they were with the seasonal flu.

Researchers are warning of new flu strain found among pigs in China, noting that it carries a global pandemic potential, as it could infect humans.

Data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that the novel coronavirus’s true fatality rate in the United States, which takes into account mild and asymptomatic cases, stands at 0.26 percent, about eight to 15 times lower than earlier mortality rate estimates of between two and four percent, which prompted the lockdowns.

“The flu is nothing to sneeze at,” Trump said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci testified Wednesday in Congress that the mortality rate for coronavirus was about one percent.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul A. Friedrichs said Trump is “right” that the seasonal flu is more dangerous than the coronavirus.

An editorial published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine speculated that the coronavirus currently causing panic in world markets could turn out no worse than “a severe seasonal influenza” in terms of mortality.

China’s state-run media launched an all-out political offensive against the United States over coronavirus assistance on Wednesday, simultaneously accusing the U.S. of not doing enough to help and condemning it as racist for offering to help at all.

Two New Jersey hospitals will not allow anyone under 12 years of age to visit patients beginning on Monday as the state deals with high levels of influenza or flu.

The number of deaths caused by the flu virus this season recently rose to 1,800, 19 of whom were children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

British public health officials are concerned by the number of Muslim parents who could refuse to let their children receive the flu vaccine after the Muslim Council of Britain ruled the drug to be ‘non-halal’ and forbidden by Islam.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that an average of 4,500 people are detained at the United States border with Mexico each day, and according to a Wednesday report from county health officials, many of them are bringing diseases with them.

Thirteen children have died from the influenza virus this flu season, according to the latest statistics released from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 80,000 people across the United States died from flu-related illnesses last year.

The death toll for children who have died from various strains of the flu this season has reached 97, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — with 13 deaths happening in the last reporting week ending January 17.

The latest report released by Texas public health officials shows the state’s flu-related death toll surpassed 4,150 since the onset of this year’s influenza season.

California reported 36 flu deaths for the week ending February 3, as the influenza pandemic is on track to be worse than the 2009 outbreak of swine flu.

California’s flu pandemic has killed 127 humans already this winter, and it is now rapidly spreading to dogs.

Singer Pink has come down with the flu ahead of her anticipated performance of the National Anthem at Super Bowl LII on Sunday — but the show will apparently go on.

Ninety-seven people from ages zero to 64 have died in connection with contracting the flu this season in California alone.

California’s reported deaths from the ongoing influenza epidemic jumped over 50 percent, from 15 for the first week of 2018 to 32 for the second week of 2018.

Texas public health officials confirmed an alarming 1,155 flu-related deaths between October 1, 2017, the official start of the flu season, and January 10, 2018.