UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento has seen “five or 10 times more influenza (patients) than COVID (patients)” in 2025 alone, according to Dr. Dean Blumberg, the hospital’s chief of pediatric ...

When COVID-19 vaccines rolled out, public health officials largely followed a simple logic: protect the most vulnerable first ...

Hand-washing works One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing ...

Another pandemic? Seasonal flu surpasses COVID-19 in U.S. deaths for the first time in 5 years. Experts urge flu vaccinations ...

Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the United States for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according ...

Seasonal influenza has reached its highest levels in over 15 years and has now surpassed COVID-19 deaths for the past two ...

The new post-pandemic national hospital occupancy average is 75% -- a full 11 percentage points higher than the pre-pandemic average, largely due to a reduction in staffed hospital beds. This puts the ...

The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years, according to a report from The Associated Press. One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of ...

Over 200 years after the first successful vaccine was created by an English physician, who discovered that inoculation with the cowpox virus protected against smallpox, vaccines remain one of the […] ...

In 2024, the CDC worked with the WHO to respond to a Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda that lasted for several months. On average, about half of people infected with Marburg virus do not survive, so ...

Flu season is in full force in the United States. At least 310,000 flu-related hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths have been ...

Higher averages of national hospital occupancy could mean tens to hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in the future, ...