Health district launches illness data portal before annual flu and RSV spikes

Regional statistics show that the next two weeks are historically when flu and RSV hospitalizations peak in Las Vegas.

That’s according to the Southern Nevada Health District’s new Respiratory Disease Dashboard, which launched in mid-November.

Along with hospitalization rates, it also tracks fatality numbers and vaccine uptake for RSV, flu, and COVID. The goal, said SNHD epidemiologist Benjamin Ashraf, is to aggregate critical public health data in one place…

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