CDC releases respiratory disease dashboard
By Doug Beardsley | January 27, 2023 | All members
COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can cause severe disease resulting in preventable deaths, thousands to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations, and millions of illnesses each year in the United States. This combined disease burden can impose a strain on healthcare systems during periods of intense circulation or cocirculation. We know that access to timely data is critical for understanding trends in virus circulation, estimating disease burden, and responding to outbreaks. While the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) tracks COVID-19, flu, and RSV hospitalizations through sentinel surveillance systems, until now, there has not been one place to find integrated data on all three viruses.
Last week, the CDC released the
Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET) interactive dashboard comprising data from three networks that conduct population-based surveillance for laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, influenza, and RSV-associated hospitalizations among children and adults. The networks gather data from acute care hospitals in select counties in 13 states covering more than 29 million people and include an estimated 8-10% of the US population.
RESP-NET interactive dashboard can be used to follow trends and see comparisons of COVID-19, influenza, and RSV-associated hospitalization rates in different demographic groups including by age, sex, and race and ethnicity, and across seasons. The dashboard is updated weekly.
Doug Beardsley | Vice President of Member Services |
dbeardsl@careproviders.org | 952-851-2489