{"id":1665,"date":"2022-12-05T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:08","slug":"flu-hospitalizations-nearly-double-over-the-last-week-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/05\/flu-hospitalizations-nearly-double-over-the-last-week-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu Hospitalizations Nearly Double Over the Last Week in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-02\/flu-hospitalizations-shoot-up-as-harsh-start-to-season-continues?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=236633152&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8dlf-3b4XIjb38UJfbuV-0IjyBVLr4bmf_v6FVebBKl2byj7lYrXFVx70Xr-qLmGGwC9symLWAND6rtr62ca5Rkm1UBw&amp;utm_content=236633152&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Bloomberg<\/a>)  Influenza hospitalizations nearly doubled over the last week, adding to the already torrid season for respiratory illnesses in the US. There were\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/weekly\/index.htm#HHSProtect\" target=\"_blank\">19,593<\/a>\u00a0people hospitalized for influenza during the week ending Nov. 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Admission rates have reached the highest level in more than a decade, behind only the 2009-2010 flu season when a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/pandemic-resources\/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\">new strain of the influenza A virus<\/a>\u00a0caused severe cases to skyrocket among children.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Influenza hospitalizations nearly doubled over the last week, adding to the already torrid season for respiratory illnesses in the US. There were\u00a019,593\u00a0people hospitalized for influenza during the week ending Nov. 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Admission rates have reached the highest level in more than a decade, behind only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}