The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that respiratory virus activity remains low nationally, while also confirming the first pediatric flu death of the 2024-2025 season, recorded in the middle of October. Overall, 201 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported between October 1 and November 2, 2024. Weekly trend lines show an increase of 2.4% in terms of outpatient visits to healthcare providers for respiratory illnesses for the week ending November 2. Separately, the CDC says COVID-19 activity is stable with wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels highest in the Midwest.
Urgent care’s top code: Respiratory complaints are the most frequently recorded condition in a typical urgent care center, comprising 24.6% of all codes charted in 2023, as analyzed by JUCM from Experity EMR data. Read more about the top 50% of all codes from the JUCM archive: Categorization of Codes Most Frequently Used in Urgent Care