Influenza cases are rising in the U.S. as the country prepares for a potentially severe season.
Another sign of the potentially severe season comes after Australia experienced its worst flu season in five years., more than 30,000 cases were being per week during the season's height in June.
Comparatively, at the height of Australia's flu season in 2017, there were 25,000 cases being reported every week. Researchers and modelers often look to the southern hemisphere, which experiences its flu season first -- typically from May to October -- to predict how the season will look in the U.S. Last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky urged Americans ages 6 months and up to get a flu shot by the end of October.
"Over the past two years, we've seen some worrisome drops in flu vaccination coverage, especially in some groups of people who are at the highest risk of developing serious flu illness," she said during a
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