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CDC Influenza News and Highlights

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 12/13/2013 02:38 PM EST

December 13, 2013

What's New

Flu Press Conference: New Report Highlights Benefits of Flu Vaccine
12/13/2013 1:46:00 PM
Estimated Influenza Illnesses and Hospitalizations Averted by Influenza Vaccination — United States, 2012–13 Influenza Season. MMWR 2013;62(49);997-1000
12/12/2013 01:00 PM EST
Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Women Who Delivered a Live-Born Infant — 21 States and New York City, 2009–10 and 2010–11 Influenza Seasons. MMWR 2013;62(49);1001-1004
12/12/2013 01:00 PM EST
Update: Total doses of distributed flu vaccine
12/12/2013 12:32 PM EST
NEW: National Early Season Flu Vaccination Coverage, United States, November 2013
12/12/2013 12:09 PM EST
NEW: Pregnant Women and Flu Vaccination, Internet Panel Survey, United States, November 2013 12/12/2013 12:08 PM EST
NEW: Health Care Personnel and Flu Vaccination, Internet Panel Survey, United States, November 2013
12/12/2013 12:06 PM EST
New Report Cites Benefits of Flu Vaccine Yet More Than Half of Americans Remain Unvaccinated
12/12/2013 12:04 PM EST
FluView - Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report
12/12/2013 11:15 AM EST
NEW: CDC Expert Commentary on Medscape: Is It Influenza? Rapid Influenza Diagnostic Tests: Making Improvements in Clinical Practice 12/09/2013 05:39 PM EST
Situation Update: Summary of Weekly FluView
12/06/2013 03:36 PM EST

Weekly Influenza Surveillance

Too many people in the United States remain unprotected from the flu going into the holiday season. Early flu season vaccination coverage results are now available for the general public, pregnant women, and health care providers. If you have not gotten your flu vaccination yet this season, you should get one now.

What you need to know for the 2013-2014 Season

NIVW Press Conference

A new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today during National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) highlights the benefits flu vaccine can provide, estimating conservatively that influenza vaccination prevented 79,000 hospitalizations and 6.6 million illnesses last season. The report also underscores how severe flu can be; it includes an estimate that 381,000 Americans were hospitalized from the flu last season.
Despite the benefits of vaccination and the potential severity of the flu, CDC also announced that fewer than half of Americans have gotten vaccinated so far this season. The agency hopes this information will encourage people who are still unvaccinated to get their vaccine before the 2013-2014 flu season takes off.

NIVW Week Recap

National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) is coming to an end and has been a very successful week! Many flu promotion and vaccination events have been occurring throughout NIVW. Flu vaccination events have occurred in 25 markets in collaboration with local health departments, faith-based groups, private sector, and pharmacies targeting health disparate populations.

Have you gotten your flu vaccine? It's not too late! It's National Influenza Vaccination Week.

The week kicked off with a successful twitter chat. The hashtag used during the twitter chat, #NIVW2013, became a “trending topic” which Twitter uses to list the most talked about topics across the world, in real-time. A Press Conference was held on Thursday with Dr. Tom Friedan and Dr. Anne Schuchat to discuss flu activity and early-season influenza vaccination coverage estimates. A national Radio Media Tour took place Thursday and Friday with 40 scheduled interviews that will be played across the nation.