{"id":8227,"date":"2024-12-04T08:45:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2024-12-04T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:45:45","slug":"are-flu-and-covid-high-now-heres-how-the-season-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/04\/are-flu-and-covid-high-now-heres-how-the-season-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Are flu and COVID high now? Here&#8217;s how the season has started"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flu-covid-infections-december-2024\/\">CBS News<\/a> This year&#8217;s winter surge of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/flu-season\/\">influenza<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;has yet to arrive for most of the country, data published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows, with trends so far a fraction of what they were at this time last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;COVID-19 activity remains low and is stable in most areas. Seasonal influenza activity is increasing slightly among children but remains low nationally,&#8221; the CDC said this week, in its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-cdc-website-shows-if-covid-or-flu-is-on-the-rise-in-2024\/\">weekly report<\/a>\u00a0on data about the two\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/covid-flu-2024-symptoms-testing\/\">viruses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flu-covid-infections-december-2024\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News This year&#8217;s winter surge of&nbsp;influenza&nbsp;and&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;has yet to arrive for most of the country, data published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows, with trends so far a fraction of what they were at this time last year.&nbsp; &#8220;COVID-19 activity remains low and is stable in most areas. Seasonal influenza [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"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\/8227","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=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8228,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions\/8228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}