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Americans can breathe easier as COVID, flu, and RSV all seem to be declining.<\/div>\n
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\u201cEarly waves of respiratory syncytial virus and influenza peaked before the new year,\u201d writes Fenit Nirappil at\u00a0The Washington Post<\/a>. \u201cAnd the expected winter uptick of coronavirus is nowhere close to overwhelming hospitals.\u201d<\/div>\n
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While it\u2019s difficult to track all infections, a\u00a0new CDC data dashboard<\/a>\u00a0indicates that emergency room visits for all three viruses are at the lowest level in three months, reports Deirdre McPhillips at\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBeing able to look at the proportion of individuals that seek care at an emergency department for these respiratory illness concerns is a really good measure of the respiratory disease season,\u201d said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.<\/div>\n
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But winter isn\u2019t over. \u201cWhether that pattern will hold is still up in the air,\u201d warns McPhillips. Respiratory virus activity remains higher than normal in most parts of the U.S. And in some years the flu has a second winter peak.<\/div>\n
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The CDC currently lists fewer than 4% of U.S. communities at the \u201chigh\u201d level of\u00a0COVID community transmission<\/a>, but the highly contagious XBB.1.5 variant\u00a0continues to spread<\/a>. That variant now makes up\u00a0more than half<\/a>\u00a0of the nation\u2019s variant pool. And less than 16% of the population is\u00a0up to date<\/a>\u00a0on their COVID vaccines.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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