According to the US CDC report, although it is the early stage of influenza transmission, the hospitalization rate of influenza is the highest in the past 10 years.

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(Associated Press)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) may usher in another wave of confirmed peaks in winter, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) According to the latest report from the latest report, in addition to the pneumonia epidemic, influenza has also become an infectious disease that needs to be prevented; the proportion of hospitalizations due to influenza in the United States is now the highest in the past 10 years, and experts also said that they have never seen influenza spread so rapidly.

According to the US media "CBS", the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report a few days ago, indicating that the influenza epidemic is spreading rapidly in the United States, and the elderly and children will be the most at-risk groups for influenza.

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According to Lynnette Brammer, an epidemiologist and head of CDC's Domestic Influenza Surveillance Team, it is an early stage of flu outbreaks, but the hospitalization rate is the highest compared with the same period in the past 10 years; Never seen flu spread so fast.

Influenza, which is still in the early stage of transmission, is involved in a chaos with three different infectious diseases, Wuhan pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which is a big challenge for the epidemic prevention work in the United States. The incidence rate is highest in "elderly people over 5 years old" and "children under 5 years old".

Infectious disease expert Dr. William Schaffner (William Schaffner) said that the current circulating influenza strains H1N1 and H3N2 tend to affect the very young and the very old, adding that "traditionally we think that H3N2 may be more severe in adults." , but it is clear that children today are also at risk of being infected with the H3N2 virus.”