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Lexington-Fayette County Health Department reports a total of 1,575 flu cases so far this season, up 276 from last week.

Covid-19, seasonal flu and rsv the cdc sees flu a bigger threat than covid. 13 million people have fallen ill compared to 9 million last year. states with a high rate of infection are the purple and deep red. ranking a high rate include florida, georgia, illinois, pennsylvania, minnesota. no state is immune now. the cdc reports hospitalizations are up 13%, the director says rsv cases appear to be slowing. covid cases are rising. and flu cases are breaking records. the most flu cases we've seen in the past decade as that doctor alluded to, dana, a lot of this is because people weren't out and a...

Resistant to that idea at this point? >> hallie, the reality is how much masks can protect us from catching these virus, but the same time, the masks tend to be a hot button. so, the mandates, i don't think you're going to see mandates happening. you're going to see strong recommendations of people saying, now that the numbers are up, especially for covid and flu, let's put masks on. and you have to look at kind of the combination of everything. like here in colorado, covid cases could be low, which they are, but flu cases, we're at a very high level. so, i wasn't to make sure i'm masking when...

Challenge the existing immunity that is here right now. so it's difficult to predict, but clearly we'd rather have less cases than more. >> let's come back to the u.s. because new york officials are now urging people to start wearing masks again since we've seen an uptick in cases and we're seeing a rise in flu cases as well, in hospitals that are starting to get more busy and busier through this holiday season. do you think that americans and new yorkers will start putting their masks on though, after they happen for so many months? >> yeah. i think so. i think the framework though has to be ...

We're seeing flu cases are rising dramatically across the country. if you look at the map, most of the states are high or very high. on top of that, covid cases, a few weeks ago, we were down around 30,000 cases, we are at 65,000 cases now. the deaths are still saying in that 300 to 400, which is more people than we want, but not climbing higher. so you're going to see a slow decline in these, but after the holidays, you're going to see another increase. so, having this conversation i think mild-january, we'll be able to say we're a couple weeks away from it peaking. we have to see what happen...