proved fertile ground for transmitting viruses and many americans are all too aware. i m vaccinated and boosted and even got the flu vaccine we try to be safe try not to see a lot of people during this time so we can be with our loved ones. reporter: those all-important get to gets are coming at a time when hospitalizations for the flu have fallen for two consecutive weeks. seasonal activity remains high according to the cdc and covid infections are beginning to gather steam. over the last two weeks, covid hospitalizations are up 7% and deaths 15% the places with the biggest change in hospitalized patients span the map from delaware, d.c. and new hampshire in the east to louisiana in the south and wyoming in the west where the figure has jumped more than 40% in a week. in miami s largest health care system, jackson health this chief medical officer says there s been a significant uptick in patients just in recent weeks. we saw covid was in the
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thanks to sam for that report what do you do if you want to protect your family and kids let me bring in dr. natalie azar it s good to see you on a holiday week thank you. we talk about the triple-demic a lot, covid, flu, rsv is the biggest concern to you now the covid piece of it? perhaps concerning, yes, not really surprising, right, and i think it s encouraging that we ve seen the flu numbers dropping but i think we re confident that we can expect a bump in cases of probably all three respiratory illnesses after the holidays because of people gathering and i think a cautionary note, one to highlight what sam already said about the fact that if you ve had flu once, that doesn t mean that you re, you know, out of the possibly of getting it again there are, you know, four strains that are covered in the flu shot and another thing i