Influenza-like illness and hospitalization rates are higher than typically expected this time of the year The 2021-2022 influenza surveillance season began on October 3, 2021, and was set to end on May 21, 2022. However, results of the current influenza surveillance efforts have shown that Nevada, along with the nation, is experiencing higher case rates, influenza-like illness rates and hospitalization rates than what are typically expected during this time of the year. The 2020-2021 influenza surveillance season was historically low due to several layered mitigation measures that were implemented on a population scale to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many of these mitigation measures, such as masking, were still in effect during much of the 2021-2022 influenza season. Now that these population-scale mitigation measures are no longer in place, health officials are seeing a rise in influenza, and it is unclear how influenza rates and hospitalizations will trend moving into the summer months. Given this uncertainty along with the increasing trends, the current influenza surveillance season in Nevada will be extended through the summer months and into the 2022-2023 season, which will begin on October 2, 2022.
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