{"id":228625,"date":"2026-01-09T01:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/us-cdc-says-2025-26-flu-season-moderately-severe-as-cases-hit-11-million"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:27:22","slug":"us-cdc-says-2025-26-flu-season-moderately-severe-as-cases-hit-11-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/us-cdc-says-2025-26-flu-season-moderately-severe-as-cases-hit-11-million","title":{"rendered":"US CDC Says 2025\u201326 Flu Season \u2018moderately Severe\u2019 as Cases Hit 11 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-cdc-says-2025-26-flu-season-moderately-severe-as-cases-hit-11-million.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seasonal influenza activity remained high and increased in late December, prompting the CDC to classify the 2025\u201326 flu season as \u201cmoderately severe.\u201d The agency estimates at least 11 million illnesses, 120,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths so far\u2014substantially higher than the same point last season. Experts note flu cases are underreported and expect the peak in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Jan 5 (Reuters) \u2014 Seasonal influenza activity remained elevated and rose in the final week of December, U.S. Centers for \u200cDisease Control and Prevention data showed on Monday, as the agency for the first time classified the 2025\u201326 season \u2060as \u201cmoderately severe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CDC estimates the season\u2019s toll so far at least 11 million illnesses, 120,000 hospitalizations and \u200c5,000 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024\u201325 season, CDC estimated at least 5.3 million illnesses, 63,000 hospitalizations and 2,700 deaths in the week ended December 28, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasonal influenza activity remained high and increased in late December, prompting the CDC to classify the 2025\u201326 flu season as \u201cmoderately severe.\u201d The agency estimates at least 11 million illnesses, 120,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths so far\u2014substantially higher than the same point last season. Experts note flu cases are underreported and expect the peak in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}