Typically flu season begins in October and stretches into May, but the pandemic era has bucked those trends because infectious-disease prevention efforts disrupted the spread of respiratory diseases.

A main driver of recent flu seasons' severity has been rising vaccine hesitancy, which has contributed to plummeting flu vaccination rates in New York and the nation over the past five years.

Flu season in New York has become an increasingly deadly public health challenge in the post-pandemic world, raising the stakes for the 2025 flu vaccination campaign.

A main driver of recent flu seasons' severity has been rising vaccine misinformation and hesitancy, which has contributed to plummeting flu vaccination rates in New York and the nation over the past five years.

In kids alone, the rate dr

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