COVID-19 Stats: COVID-19 and Influenza Discharge Diagnoses As a Percentage of Emergency Department (ED) Visits, by Year — United States, June 2018–March 2021

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Gates, Abigail ; Dias, Taylor ; van Santen, Katharina L. ; Sheppard, Michael
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  In late June 2020, the percentage of ED visits for COVID-19 increased and reached a peak of 2.8% of all ED visits in early July before declining through August. This decline was followed by a larger and more prolonged increase beginning in September 2020 that reached a peak (7.2%) in early January 2021. Influenza activity generally begins in October with increased activity throughout the winter months. By the beginning of February 2018, the percentage of ED visits for influenza reached 3.1%, and by the beginning of February 2019, reached 5.0%. During June 2020–March 2021, ED visits for influenza accounted for less than 0.1% of all visits.
  
  Source: National Syndromic Surveillance Program (U.S.), June 2018–March 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/index.html
  
  Reported by: Abigail Gates, MSPH; Taylor Dias, MPH; Katharina L. van Santen, MSPH; Michael Sheppard, MS.
  
  
• Subjects:
  CoronaVirus Infections COVID-19 Emergency Service, Hospital Humans Influenza, Human International Classification Of Diseases Patient Discharge Population Surveillance Time Factors
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 70(15):573
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  15
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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