For the first time in five years, more people in the US have died from the flu than from COVID-19.

For the first time in five years, the number of deaths from seasonal flu in the US has surpassed the number of deaths from the virus.covid-19 . This is reported byBLOOMBERG, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US Department of HEALTH and Human Services.

According to the agency, this winter, influenza has surpassed COVID-19 as the deadlier virus . For the first time in five years, the seasonal disease has prevailed over the pandemic pathogen, Bloomberg reports.

The current flu season is dominated by H1N1 and H3N2 strains, with the latter causing more severe illness. Since the widespread spread of COVID-19 in the United States in 2020, it has killed nearly 42 times more people than the flu, the agency notes.

However, according to preliminary data from the CDC, disease dynamics will change in 2025. Since October 2024 , at least 29 million people in the United States have contracted the flu, an additional 370,000 people have been hospitalized, and 16,000 have died. Experts say that alongside these figures, a decline in coronavirus mortality is being observed. This is due to immunity, both from vaccination and from previous infection. Furthermore, experts have documented the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, which now causes less severe complications.

Infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Peter Chin-Hong, explained that the increase in mortality from seasonal flu is due, in part, to low vaccination rates and delayed treatment.

"We need to change the idea that respiratory viruses only cause serious illness in older people, as we've seen with COVID-19. Influenza affects even the youngest," added Peter Chin-Hong.

In addition to rising flu and acute respiratory viral infections, outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza continue in the United States among wild birds and poultry. In January of this year, the first human death from avian influenza occurred in the United States—a 65-year-old man living in the southeastern state of Louisiana.

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