{"id":110591,"date":"2024-10-05T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110591"},"modified":"2024-10-05T07:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:15:22","slug":"cdc-launches-new-way-to-measure-trends-of-covid-flu-and-more-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110591","title":{"rendered":"CDC launches new way to measure trends of COVID, flu and more for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new way for Americans to look up how high or low levels of viruses like <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/coronavirus\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">COVID-19<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/flu-season\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">flu<\/a><\/span> are in their local area for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/data\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;community snapshot&#8221;<\/a> is the CDC&#8217;s latest attempt to repackage its data in one place for Americans deciding when to take extra <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/covid-2024-guidelines-isolation-tests-vaccine\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">precautions<\/a><\/span> recommended in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/guidance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">guidelines<\/a>, like masking or <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/free-covid-tests-accuracy\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">testing<\/a><\/span>, going into the fall and winter.<\/p>\n<p>It centers around a sweeping new weekly metric called &#8220;acute respiratory illness.&#8221; The metric&#8217;s debut fulfills a goal laid out by agency officials months ago, aiming to measure the risk of COVID-19 alongside other germs that spread through the air on a single scale from &#8220;minimal&#8221; to &#8220;very high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest thing we&#8217;re trying to do here is not just to have a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/time-names-johns-hopkins-covid-dashboard-a-top-invention-of-2020\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">dashboard<\/a><\/span>. It&#8217;s not just putting a bunch of information in front of people and kind of expecting them to navigate all of that,&#8221; the CDC&#8217;s Captain Matthew Ritchey told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Ritchey, who co-leads the team that coordinates data fed into the snapshots, said the CDC gathers experts from across the agency every Thursday to walk through the week&#8217;s data coming from hospitals and emergency rooms, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/covid-19-wastewater-monitoring-program-cdc\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">wastewater sampling<\/a><\/span> and testing laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All those groups come together, talking through their different data systems and their expertise to say, &#8216;this is what&#8217;s catching my eye.&#8217; And then that&#8217;s what we want to tee up for the public,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ritchey cited early signs of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/what-is-rsv-children-cases-rising\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">respiratory syncytial virus<\/a><\/span>, or RSV, starting to increase this season as expected in Florida, which is called out at the top of this week&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<h2>Behind the CDC&#8217;s new &#8220;respiratory illness&#8221; metric<\/h2>\n<p>Based on emergency room data, the &#8220;acute respiratory illness&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/data\/faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">metric<\/a>, grades overall infections in each state or county from &#8220;minimal&#8221; to &#8220;very high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is defined broadly to capture infections from COVID-19 and influenza, as well as a range of other diseases that spread through the air like whooping cough or pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>A previous definition the agency had relied on called <a href=\"https:\/\/gis.cdc.gov\/grasp\/fluview\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;influenza-like illness&#8221;<\/a> had been too narrow, Ritchey said, with requirements like fever which excluded many patients.<\/p>\n<p>A separate set of standalone levels is still being calculated each week for <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cdc-covid-19-guidelines-updated-recommendations\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">COVID-19<\/a><\/span>, influenza and RSV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The formula behind those levels is based on historical peaks and valleys in emergency room trends, which were analyzed from each state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve looked over the last couple of years and understand the low points of the year, based on our lab testing, and at that point we say, that&#8217;s the baseline or &#8216;minimal&#8217; category,&#8221; said Ritchey.<\/p>\n<h2>How to see what COVID variants are dominant<\/h2>\n<p>Not all of the CDC&#8217;s data made the cutoff to be included on the first layer of the agency&#8217;s new snapshot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, while the front page for the general public does mention current SARS-CoV-2 variants <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/xec-covid-variant-symptoms-states-what-to-know\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">like XEC<\/a><\/span>, details about its prevalence remain on a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">webpage<\/a> deeper into the CDC&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That whole jumble of lots of acronyms or letters and things like that just don&#8217;t overly resonate with them,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For flu, the CDC is still publishing more detailed weekly updates designed for experts, through the agency&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/fluview\/surveillance\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;FluView&#8221; reports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those include a weekly breakdown of the &#8220;type&#8221; \u2013 influenza A or B \u2013 and &#8220;subtype&#8221; \u2013 like H3N2 or H1N1 \u2013 that is being reported to the agency from testing laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities closely watch trends in flu subtyping as well, since they can help explain changes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/whats-new\/2023-2024-cdc-study-flu-severity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">severity<\/a> of the virus as well as <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flu-vaccine-effectiveness-2024-2025-season\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">vaccine effectiveness<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Future changes to come\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The snapshot remains a work in progress as the CDC gathers feedback from the public as well as local health departments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a continuum of users, from the public health practitioner to my parents, providing feedback on how they&#8217;re using it. More often, the feedback we get is, &#8216;hey, I use this to help inform how I work, or talk with my elderly parents,'&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>One big change coming later this season is the resumption of nationwide hospitalization data, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncird\/whats-new\/updated-hospital-reporting-requirements-for-respiratory-viruses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pandemic-era<\/a> requirement for hospitals to report the figures to the federal government lapsed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/d\/2024-17021\/p-8459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rule<\/a> by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to start collecting the data again for COVID-19, influenza and RSV is due to take effect in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As that data starts to come in again and gets to a robust enough level, the plan is that it would be incorporated on the site as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another long term goal is to add information specific to other respiratory illness culprits beyond COVID-19, influenza and RSV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be able to talk about maybe some of the other things that are not the big three as well, like <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ohio-white-lung-pneumonia-not-linked-to-china-outbreak-novel-pathogen-experts\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">mycoplasma<\/a><\/span> and some of those other things too, that we know peak during certain parts of the season,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<div class=\"component__heading-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"component__title\">Coronavirus Pandemic<\/h3>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/coronavirus\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--lg\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n              More<br \/>\n              <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"icon__caret-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"\/><\/svg><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/coronavirus\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--sm\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n            More<br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"icon__caret-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"\/><\/svg><\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/alexander-tin\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alexander Tin<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. 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