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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 year's 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 year's 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 will be the potential for some flooding. there's already been a lot of rain, and there's going to b...

Season and what we're 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 doesn't include holiday activity. because this looks at the week of december 18th. so it doesn't include people moving around after christmas or new year's. we'll see what happens with that. also flu activity still super, super high in the united states. nearly every state at high or very high levels. amara...

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, that's 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, it's a good idea. if you take a look at the map of the u.s., see what i mean. everything you see that's red or orange or purple, that indicates high or very high flu activity. that is most of th...