US COVID exercise continued to say no in lots of areas, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) stated at this time in its newest updates.
Take a look at positivity for COVID was 13.5% final week, down from 14.9% the week earlier than.
Hospitalizations proceed to say no however stay highest in seniors, adopted by adults ages 50 to 64 and kids youthful than age 4 years.Â
Emergency division visits dropped about 19% in comparison with the earlier week and at the moment are at low ranges throughout a lot of the nation.Â
Deaths held regular, and provisional knowledge present that the CDC acquired reviews of 563 COVID deaths for the week ending September 14.
Detections of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater are nonetheless excessive nationally, in line with CDC tacking. The best ranges stay within the West, adopted by the Midwest and the South. Nevertheless, all areas present downward developments.
The newest knowledge from WastewaterSCAN, a nationwide wastewater monitoring system primarily based at Stanford College in partnership with Emory College, present that detections are nonetheless excessive nationally and within the Midwest, with no important up or down development over the previous 3 weeks.
Very low uptake of COVID, flu vaccines in adults
In its updates at this time, the CDC additionally had some respiratory virus vaccine uptake estimates. Up to now, about 2.8% of adults have acquired the up to date COVID vaccine, and 6.8% have acquired a seasonal flu vaccine.
Amongst adults ages 75 and older, 33.1% have reported ever receiving a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine.
