While most people will clear the virus and get a negative antigen test result within 10 days, some people may keep testing positive for longer than that, experts tell TODAY.com. And if you keep ...

COVID-19 and flu should not be used in the same sentence in a guideline, he emphasized, in part because the guidelines treat COVID-19 like a disease that only spreads when people exhibit symptoms.

COVID-19 and the flu should be taken seriously, the agency said. In 2023, over 916,300 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, and 75,500 died from the disease, according to the CDC.

Alicia Budd, who leads the CDC’s flu surveillance team, said several indicators are showing “continued increases” in flu cases. COVID-19 versus the flu: Know the symptoms ...

For a two-week period starting on June 9 and ending on June 22, the CDC's Nowcast data tracker showed the projections of COVID-19 variants, with the KP.3 variant accounting for 33.1% of positive ...

The CDC’s bird flu test is the only one the Food and Drug Administration has authorized for use right now. Shah said the agency has distributed these tests to about 100 public health labs in states.

There’s hardly any flu this year. Coronavirus restrictions may be responsible, the CDC says. Masks, social distancing and Covid-related closures may be keeping influenza at bay.

There is growing concern that a rise in Omicron cases, paired with climbing Delta cases and an increase in flu cases, could overwhelm health systems this winter, as well as possibly leading to a ...

Vaccination rates for COVID-19 and the flu have declined, ... (CDC) Director Mandy Cohen said only 47 percent of U.S. adults received a flu vaccine during the 2022-23 respiratory season, ...

There are similarities and differences between Covid-19 and the flu, but we know much less about the novel coronavirus. As we look at what happened in China, and what’s happening now in Italy ...

There’s hardly any flu this year. Coronavirus restrictions may be responsible, the CDC says. Masks, social distancing and Covid-related closures may be keeping influenza at bay.