(BPT) - A medida que nos adentramos en el otoño y se acercan los meses más frÃos, es importante mantenerse alerta ante el aumento del riesgo de virus respiratorios, especialmente el del COVID-19. En los últimos cuatro años, los datos han demostrado que los casos de COVID-19 y las hospitalizaciones y las muertes por esta enfermedad aumentan sistemáticamente durante las estaciones de otoño e invierno.1
Esta tendencia estacional se refleja en datos recientes, lo que subraya el impacto continuo del COVID-19 en todo el paÃs. Estimaciones recientes de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC) muestran que entre el 1 de octubre de 2024 y el 9 de agosto de 2025, el COVID-19 provocó aproximadamente entre 320,000 y 480,000 hospitalizaciones, y entre 37,000 y 56,000 muertes en los Estados Unidos.2 Los adultos mayores siguen siendo los más vulnerables. Las personas mayores de 65 años representaron dos tercios de las hospitalizaciones relacionadas con el COVID-19 entre marzo de 2020 y septiembre de 2024.3
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