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Nashville ranks #7 of the top designated market areas with flu activity this week, with a 40% increase in activity week-over-week.

Warning the new flu season could be starting. increased flu activity has been detected among young adults and college students. the cdc says vaccination rates against the flu are still low this year. anyone aged six months and older can receive a flu shot. the agency warns that if the flu and the coronavirus both spread, it could stress health care systems. the european cdc is calling for urgent public health measures to combat the dramatic covid surge. germany is among the worst hit countries. it just topped 100,000 total coronavirus deaths and broke its daily case record for the second day...

Isa? >> thank you very much, derek. now, the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention is warning the new flu season could be starting. increased flu activity has been detected among young adults and college students. the cdc says vaccination rates against the flu are still low this year. anyone age six months and older can receive a flu shot, the agency warns that if the flu and the coronavirus both spread t could stress health care systems. now, chinese tennis player peng shuai may have resurfaced. questions still surround her time away from the public eye. just ahead, a look at ch...

Policy aide during the obama administration. she is one of our public health experts, nonresident fellow at brookings. so doctor, that is a depressing portrait. we are averaging a death toll of 1000 souls a day. can you tell us just what it is we are headed for this thanksgiving? >> yes brian. this is going to be an interesting intergenerational mis-c of people who are traveling at record numbers. and because cases are rising, particularly as you noted in the midwest and northeast. we are probably going to have many scenarios, i'm already hearing about, them you might as well. people are sayin...

Walensky commented, this still really continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. however, we're going into a colder season. we're also seeing a lot of flu activity, much higher than last year of course. and i think to your point what we're hoping for is a decoupling of deaths and hospitalizations. so we see cases increasing but we're really watching those hospitalization and death rates because we hope that those hold stable or decrease, which really indicates that vaccines are working at preventing death and hospitalization. and what we're seeing are milder cases. but this is going to be...