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Mississippi has some of the lowest flu vaccination rates in the US.

Louisiana ranks fourth among states with the highest flu activity. Lafayette in top five areas for flu in the U.S.

Bianna. were seeing declines in most areas when it comes to flu activity. but the takeaway message here is that the flu season is not over yet. we are still seeing significant levels of flu activity and when you look at the numbers, here is where we are now. so far this season, there have been at least 24 million illnesses, 260,000 hospitalizations. and sadly, 16,000 lives lost to flu so far this season. among those deaths, 79 were in children. and that is what stands out the most to me. it is s...

The number of hospital admissions for flu decreased nationally for the third week in a row.

The number of hospital admissions for flu decreased nationally for the third week in a row.

It is looking like some pretty sloppy travel across the eastern seaboard going into this weekend. for new years eve, a chance for showers and storms in the southeast. that threat does continue up for the new year at midnight. still expecting to see some rain. temperatures are going to be in the 40s and 50s before conditions improve in the northeast on new years day. the west still the west still very, very wet. a lot of rain, mountain snow at the highest of elevations. and the big concern here w...

Season and what were seeing from the data the cdc just put on their website, that flu activity is going down after going up, up, up and this is the third week in a row for people admitted to the hospital with the flu has gone steadily down. now, a couple of caveats here. first of all, this doesnt include holiday activity. because this looks at the week of december 18th. so it doesnt include people moving around after christmas or new years. well see what happens with that. also flu activity stil...

Post-christmas activity when people might have been going out there and getting infected. if you look so far this season there have been over 200,000 flu hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths so far so the bottom line is it does appear that flu activity is going down, thats good. this was a crazy early year, good to see it come down but flu is still high. it is not too late to get your flu shot. in fact, its a good idea. if you take a look at the map of the u.s., see what i mean. everything you see...