{"id":76983,"date":"2025-12-21T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76983\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:42:40","slug":"flu-season-is-early-and-aggressive-in-new-york-city-heres-what-that-means-for-the-rest-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76983\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu season is \u2018early\u2019 and \u2018aggressive\u2019 in New York City. Here\u2019s what that means for the rest of the country."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated: Dec. 18, 2025 at 8:09\u202fa.m. ET<br \/>First Published: Dec. 17, 2025 at 4:02\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">A new flu variant is causing an early uptick in cases across the country, particularly in New York, Louisiana and Colorado.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">For the week <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/fluview\/surveillance\/2025-week-49.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ending Dec. 13<\/a>, the number of people testing positive for the flu increased 8.1%, and 3.2% of visits to a healthcare provider were for a respiratory illness, up from the baseline of 3.1%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Updated: Dec. 18, 2025 at 8:09\u202fa.m. ETFirst Published: Dec. 17, 2025 at 4:02\u202fp.m. ET A new flu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7829,417,2953,5567,38560,38559,38558,9,24,55,54,56,7798,7789,38557,1497],"class_list":["post-76983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-human-influenza","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-medical-conditions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-respiratory-tract-diseases","tag-synd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76983","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=76983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}