Situational Overview for the 2024-2025
Season
Report Updated on 03-13-2025
905
hospitalized cases for the season
2%
current percent of outpatient encounters due to influenza
34
flu-associated deaths for the season
Flu A H3
current dominant flu type
Changes in the last week
10
fewer flu hospitalizations than last week
0.2%
decrease in flu outpatient encounters in the last week.
Low
current weekly severity
FluSurv-NET Hospitalizations in Salt Lake County
Type | Hospitalized Influenza Cases | Influenza-Related Deaths |
---|---|---|
A | 891 | 34 |
A&B | <5 | 0 |
B | 13 | 0 |
Type | Influenza Subtype | Hospitalized Influenza Cases | Influenza-Related Deaths |
---|---|---|---|
A | Flu A | 325 | 10 |
A | Flu A H1N1 | 210 | 5 |
A | Flu A H3 | 356 | 19 |
A&B | Multiple Subtypes | <5 | 0 |
B | Flu B | 11 | 0 |
B | Flu B Victoria | <5 | 0 |
Navigating Tables and Graphs
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In the early season, some features of the report are removed until case count thresholds are met.
Data is lagged a week to allow for case ascertainment.
Data Suppression
Low counts are suppressed to protect potentially identifiable information. A double asterisk (**) indicates that a figure has been suppressed.
Data sources
Hospitalized case data is pulled from the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-Net). More details about this surveillance system can be found on the CDC Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Webpage.
Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) is a form of syndromic surveillance that captures the number of people seeking care at an emergency department (ED), InstaCare, or Urgent Care with symptoms matching influenza. This is compared to all visits in the ED, InstaCare or Urgent Care to generate a percentage (ILI %) that is tracked in the above graph.
Risk Factors for Hospitalized Influenza Cases
Influenza Burden
Below is the estimated burden of influenza cases in Salt Lake County.
The methods used to calculate these estimates follow CDC’s
methodology*
and incorporate Salt Lake County-specific influenza hospitalization
testing practices to account for under-detection of hospitalized
influenza illnesses.
* Multiplier input is from 2018-2019 due to
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Type | Number of Illnesses |
---|---|
Hospitalized Illnesses | 1600 |
Outpatient Medically-Attended Illnesses | 84100 |
Community Illnesses (non-medically-attended) | 90600 |
Influenza Severity Metrics
Influenza Severity Metrics
The severity metric for Salt Lake County is calculated using the Moving Epidemic Method (MEM). Indicators used for severity assessment include deaths (influenza-related deaths using CDC FluSurv-Net definitions), outpatient cases (influenza-like illness from Germwatch) and inpatient cases (influenza-related hospitalizations from FluSurv-NET).
Low
Current Weekly Severity
Moderate
Season Severity Metric
Pneumonia, Influenza, and COVID Mortality (PIC)
Pneumonia, Influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) Mortality is the number of
decedents in a MMWR week with Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19 listed
on their death certificates divided by the total number of decedents in
a MMWR multiplied by 100 in order to get a percent of all deaths due to
PIC.
2024-2025 Season: Pneumonia, Influenza, and
COVID Mortality for Salt Lake County
Historical Pneumonia, Influenza, and COVID
Morality for Salt Lake County Thresholds
US indicators used for severity assessment include outpatient cases (influenza-like illness from ILINET), inpatient cases (influenza-related hospitalizations from FluSurv-NET) and deaths (influenza and pneumonia related deaths from NCHS).