Editor's Note
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is hosting a new dashboard—Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET)—that tracks hospitalization rates for laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) by age, sex, race/ethnicity, state, and season.
The information is based on data from a network of acute care hospitals in select counties in 13 states, covering more than 29 million people. The CDC will update the dashboards weekly.
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