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RSV rates — which tend to climb in the fall and winter months — are highest for children under the age of five.
In October 2023, over a quarter of adults with long COVID were experiencing significant activity limitations.
12.3 million Americans seriously thought about suicide in 2021 — with men, LGBTQ youth, American Indian and Alaska Native people, and veterans at higher risk.
8.3% of Americans experienced a major depressive episode in 2021 — 6% of men and 10% of women.
At the beginning of the pandemic, telehealth visits increased from about 5 million to more than 53 million among Medicare recipients alone. 80% of physicians plan to continue using it.
Each year in the US, over 100,000 people visit an emergency room for accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, with tens of thousands hospitalized.
Nearly 47% of Americans ages 18 and over got a flu shot during the 2022–2023 flu season — but uptake of CDC-recommended vaccinations for hepatitis B and shingles lags.
The federal government has resources that help people locate nearby mental health treatment facilities. Yet, over one-third of Americans live in areas that lack mental health professionals.
Mental illness rates have increased in recent decades, with the highest rates recorded for women, younger adults, and people in the Western and Midwestern United States.
Nearly one-third of bisexual and gay men and bisexual women dealt with a substance use disorder last year, as did one-quarter of lesbians.
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