A total of 11% of RSV patients experienced a cardiac event, abnormal heart rhythm, heart failure, or ischemic heart disease.
The loss of activity is equivalent to 15% of the US population becoming completely immobile for 1 day.
Adult COVID-19 patients also infected with the flu are 4 times more likely to need mechanical ventilation and 2.4 times more likely to die.
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Even those who did 10 to 150 minutes of aerobic (cardio) exercise per week had a 21% lower risk, with higher levels linked to a 41% to 50% reduction.
COVID-19 patients had a longer hospital stay and a 69% higher mortality rate than ICU patients with influenza.
As flu levels taper off in the Northern Hemisphere, some Southern Hemisphere nations have reported increased detections in recent weeks.
After a rise in flu activity in late January, led mainly by the 2009 H1N1 strain and influenza B, levels are declining again.
RSV activity began in the southeast and worked its way north and west. In its Marburg notice, the CDC said there is no evidence so far that the two outbreaks are connected.
Investigators are working to determine the Chilean man's H5N1 exposure, and in Senegal, H5N1 has now infected a poultry flock.
Nearly two-thirds of patients hospitalized with flu, RSV, or COVID-19 received antibiotics, but they had a higher risk of death than those who didn't.
The new analysis includes death records and out-of-hospital heart attacks, finding a more robust connection than an earlier study.
Recently approved for emergency use, the first combo at-home test for COVID-19 also marks the first self-test for flu.
China is experiencing a surge in H1N1 activity, India is battling H3N2, and flu is still above baseline in the European region.
