and they said they had to admit her right away. reporter: 18-month-old kyra had just gotten over the flu when she had trouble breathing. > so you can see the belly going up. you can hear the forced breathing. you can see the ribs coming out, and they call this seesaw breathing. reporter: after four days in the hospital, kyra s now home recovering. david, just 40% of adults say they ve gotten the flu shot. health officials say they want to see that number much higher, but they understand there is vaccine fatigue right now. the problem is, they say, a perfect storm is brewing. people are taking off their masks and holiday travel is ramping up. so, they are stressing right now, it is very important for you to get those vaccines. david? yeah, vaccine fatigue is understood, but they say the flu vaccine is very effective this year. mireya, thank you. meantime, to china now, and their emergency involving covid. tonight, a dramatic rollback of those extreme zero-covid restrictions. but
compromised. reporter: the cdc says over thanksgiving week outpatient visits for flu-like illness tripled the national baseline and hospitalizations nearly doubled from the previous week. since flu season began the agency estimating 4,500 people including 14 children have died. that s already close to the total number of deaths for last year s entire flu season. in dallas/fort worth pediatric hospitals are near capacity. doctors say the best line of defense is to get the flu shot. i need to be protected and i believe in the vaccines. reporter: though some blame vaccine fatigue for their inaction so far. i haven t gotten a flu shot wins i was a kid, the last shot was the covid shot, to get an appointment it was a hassle to go in and wait. reporter: experts worry about high risk populations like older americans and pregnant women. places with close contact like day cares, classrooms and college dorms can be settings for superspreaders. michael just caught a bad case
frankly, a little scared and anxious about what might happen with the vulnerabilities. certainly, xi jinping has mentioned the mistakes here and others that his administration has made. and talk to us dr. gaup gupta, about the triple threat of covid and flu and rsv. what are you worried about and your colleagues holding up? yeah, jonathan, always a smoldering crisis. i m worried about flu cases in particular. as a pulmonologist, if you haven t gotten vaccinated against the flu, you need to do it. i m worried that vaccine fatigue has potential effects on people wanting to get the flu shot. remember, all of these vaccines give you protections from the hospital for a time period, four
shot i asked him why and he said that he thinks that vaccine fatigue is part of it. a lot of people out there just saying i m not going to get another shot. even though, to your point. this flu vaccine apparently is very effective. i also want to say to people out there because my biggest thing about vaccines is when we talk dove they say well, that s a new vaccine. the flu vaccine has been around in some shape or form since the 1950s. i also want people to understand i m talking about hospitalizations. dr. wolenski who i spoke to friday, 23 hours hospitalizations from flu already this year. 6500 in the past week. so flu is zooming you up to covid levels and again the flu shot can help keep you out of the hospital and we are used to that flu shot and we know that flu shot.