Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report

CDC ^ | January 23, 2021 | Editorial

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Key Points

• Flu activity is unusually low at this time but may increase in the coming months.
• An annual flu vaccine is the best way to protect against flu and its potentially serious complications.
• If you haven’t gotten your flu vaccine yet, get vaccinated now.
• There are also flu antiviral drugs that can be used to treat flu illness.

U.S. Virologic Surveillance:

Clinical Laboratories

The results of tests performed by clinical laboratories nationwide are summarized below. Data from clinical laboratories (the percentage of specimens tested that are positive for influenza) are used to monitor whether influenza activity is increasing or decreasing.

 

results of tests from Clinical Laboratories

	Week 3	Data Cumulative since September 27, 2020 (Week 40)
No. of specimens tested	23,549	524,037
No. of positive specimens (%)	65 (0.3%)	1,276 (0.2%)
Positive specimens by type
Influenza A	16 (24.6%)	454 (35.6%)
Influenza B	49 (75.4%)	822 (64.4%)

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Driving right now but, CDC coded everything that is a Covid symptom, which can be simple allergies, cancer, stress, flu, TMJ etc as Covid and doctors have to indicate that on various forms