"Anywhere we detect this virus, you can see a large surge of influenza cases coming afterwards,"
"the timing is not that much different from other flu seasons, but the number of cases, and how quickly those cases are increasing is something that is not usually seen this time of year."
"When you're in the middle of seeing the curve start to go up, we just don't have any sense of where it's going to stop,"
The virus arrived as expected, but cases are rising faster than in previous years. Last week more than 19,000 patients with influenza were admitted to hospitals, an increase of about 10,000 from the prior week. To date at least 7.5 million people have been sickened and over 3,100 people have died. The surge appears driven primarily by a new influenza A(H3N2) subclade K that emerged in Australia. New York reported over 71,000 cases in a single week, a record for the state. High activity is present across the northeast, midwest, and south. There is no current indication that the strain is more severe or more contagious, but antigenic changes may reduce population immunity and enable rapid spread.
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