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On Friday, Feb. 23rd, the CDC held a briefing on this year’s influenza season by Dr. Joseph Bresee. Today they’ve posted the transcript, and an mp3 audio file from the briefing.
As Dr. Bresee points out, this is the slowest start to an influenza season that we’ve seen in 29 years.
And with this slow start has come a much lower incidence of hospitalization, pneumonia, and pediatric flu-related fatalities.
There are signs that the season is starting to pick up, and it is not unheard of for the flu season to peak in March or even April.
Dr. Bresee talks about the new WHO vaccine recommendations, and then takes questions from the press, primarily about reasons why the flu season is late this year.
CDC Telebriefing: Influenza Activity Update
Friday, February 23, 2012 at 1PM ET
- Audio recording (MP3, 3.70MB)
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