{"id":5634,"date":"2024-01-02T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2024-01-02T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:09:02","slug":"respiratory-virus-activity-is-high-and-rising-across-the-united-states-cdc-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/02\/respiratory-virus-activity-is-high-and-rising-across-the-united-states-cdc-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory virus activity is high and rising\u00a0across the United States, CDC data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/01\/health\/virus-season-rising-levels-flu-covid-rsv\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As seasonal virus activity surges across the United States, experts stress the importance of preventive measures \u2013 such as masking and vaccination \u2013 and the value of treatment for those who do get sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tens of thousands of people have been admitted to hospitals for respiratory illness each week this season. During the week ending December 23, there were more than 29,000 patients admitted with Covid-19, about 15,000 admitted with the flu and thousands more with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationally, Covid-19 levels in wastewater, a leading measure of viral transmission, are very high \u2013 higher than they were at this time last year in every region, CDC data shows.\u00a0Weekly emergency department visits rose 12%, and hospitalizations jumped about 17% in the most recent week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/01\/health\/virus-season-rising-levels-flu-covid-rsv\/index.html\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN As seasonal virus activity surges across the United States, experts stress the importance of preventive measures \u2013 such as masking and vaccination \u2013 and the value of treatment for those who do get sick. Tens of thousands of people have been admitted to hospitals for respiratory illness each week this season. During the week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/5634","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}