Compared to the standard shot, the mRNA vaccine had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6 percent higher, and 27.4 ...

The trend is similar in California: 47.7% of California’s children have been vaccinated against flu as of late January, also the lowest since at least the 2019-20 flu season.

U.S. influenza mortality rates vary from season to season. The viral disease caused an estimated 20,000 deaths and 380,000 hospitalizations in 2019–2020.

2019-20: A total of 19,845 lab-confirmed flu-associated hospitalizations were reported by FluSurv-NET sites between Oct. 1, 2019, and April 11, 2020, with a cumulative hospitalization rate of 68.3 ...

The 2019-2020 flu season in the U.S. was unusual in a number of ways. Cases picked up in August rather than the more typical fall and early winter months, and it hit children particularly hard.

The 2019-2020 flu season in the U.S. was unusual in a number of ways. Cases picked up in August rather than the more typical fall and early winter months, and it hit children particularly hard.

According to CDC estimates, the burden of illness during the 2019–2020 season was moderate with an estimated 38 million people sick with flu, 18 million visits to a health care provider for flu ...

Massachusetts is in the midst of a bad flu season.Communities across the Bay State are reporting high influenza-like illness activity, the state Department of Public Health found in its most ...

Even so, during the 2018-2019 flu season, the flu shot is estimated to have prevented 4.4 million illnesses, 2.3 million medical visits, 58,000 hospitalizations and 3,500 deaths from flu ...

The 2019-2020 flu season already had an unusual start — in December and early January, the main strain of flu virus circulating was a type called influenza B, Live Science previously reported.

There have been at least 22 million flu cases, 210,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 deaths so far this season. 61,000 people died during the 2018-2019 flu season. 78 children have died this flu season.