Infants are more vulnerable than older children to severe illness from viruses like the flu and RSV, and symptoms can include vomiting and diarrhea for roughly one-third of kids.
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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Amid rising flu activity causing decade-high hospitalization rates, COVID-19 markers are also climbing.
As hospitalizations almost double, most states are experiencing high or very high flu levels.
Global flu activity rose in the first half of November, mainly due to rising levels in North America and parts of Europe.
Flu activity is very high or high across most of the continental United States.
The early flu surge is adding to pressure on health systems as they face other respiratory diseases like RSV.
In some nations in the Americas, 3 viral diseases are straining hospitals.
Flu activity in the Northern Hemisphere is rising, with levels up sharply over the past few weeks in North America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest global flu update, which roughly covers the last half of October.
A flu surges comes as RSV continues to overwhelm pediatric hospitals in some states.
Muliple respiratory viruses are already straining health systems, with children among the hardest hit groups.
Flu activity is starting to rise in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update, which covers data through Oct 16.
