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Covid-19, influenza, and RSV increasing around the holidays in New York

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Sign up for Your Local Epidemiologist New York and get Dr. Marisa Donnellys community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that, nationally, there are 100,000150,000 hospitalizations among adults age 60+ years due to RSV. Just reply to this email.

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Childhood vaccine coverage remains high, but we can't let our guard down

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Sign up for Your Local Epidemiologist New York and get Dr. Marisa Donnelly’s community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. There was a major measles outbreak in New York City in 2019 : 605 cases in a community with low vaccination coverage (79.5%), leading to 20 kiddos going to the intensive-care unit.