Los Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCfor its acronym in English) anticipated this Friday a season of virus respiratory similar to the previous year, but with a lower rate hospitalizations than those recorded in previous periods.
“Los CDC They foresee that this season respiratory will have a similar or lower number of hospitalizations maxims combined by COVID-19flu and RSV (virus respiratory syncytial virus), Mandy Cohen, head of the Atlanta-based health agency, said Friday at a briefing on government preparations to deal with the diseases.
The cumulative hospitalization rate for the season 2023-2024 was 264.3 per 100,000, which is 14.2% lower than the rate of the season 2022-2023, which was 308.1 per 100,000, according to the CDC.
Cohen explained that the projections They make them experts based on historical data and models, so he warned that the forecast may change because many variables are considered, such as the number of people who plan to be vaccinated, something they consider essential for the prevention of these diseases.
This season of virus respiratory that typically circulate in the fall and winter months are starting with a strong wave of COVID-19 which began in mid-summer and is advancing throughout the country, according to the levels of activity viral in the aguas residual.
“At this moment we continue to see a lot of activity of COVID-19 “across the country,” Cohen said, but despite this, he said, it is not producing a similar increase in emergency room visits, hospitalizations or deaths, a trend similar to that recorded last summer due to the protection acquired by vaccines or previous infections.
The director of the CDC He stressed that the current wave of Covid appears to have peaked as levels of infection are declining in some parts of the country, data from the aguas residuals, which is how the agency is measuring the progression of the disease.
Before the season of virus respiratory which is about to begin, Cohen stressed the need to “stay vigilant” and use all the tools that are available to protect the public from COVID-19influenza and virus respiratory syncytial.
“We have vaccines, evidence y treatments against the diseases responsible for most deaths and hospitalizations “fall and winter,” he said during the press conference where he recommended the public to get vaccinated in September and October.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the vaccines updated against the COVID-19which the experts They claim they are more effective in dealing with recent strains of the virus.
Dawn O’Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced during a press conference on Friday that the federal government will again provide evidence homemade from the COVID-19.
The free home delivery program of the evidence ASPR’s Covid-19 vaccination center will reopen at the end of September and up to four people can apply for it at no cost, O’Connell said.
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