{"id":132465,"date":"2026-02-13T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132465\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:44:07","slug":"weekly-flu-cases-increase-as-nyc-reports-146k-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132465\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly flu cases increase as NYC reports 146k this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITYWIDE \u2014 NEW YORK CITY recorded more than 146,000 positive flu cases so far this respiratory virus season, with over 1,700 lab-reported cases in the week ending Feb. 7 \u2014 the first weekly increase since late December, according to new data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released Feb. 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Children under 18 account for 52% of cases. Emergency room visits and hospitalizations tied to flu continued to decline and remained under 0.5% of all visits. City officials reported four pediatric flu deaths this season and urged residents to get vaccinated as flu activity may continue through early May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 cases remained low but ticked up slightly, while respiratory syncytial virus cases, also known as RSV, stayed elevated among children under 5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITYWIDE \u2014 NEW YORK CITY recorded more than 146,000 positive flu cases so far this respiratory virus season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3302,31753,9,56675,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-132465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-breaking","tag-flu-season","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-department-of-health-and-mental-hygiene","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}