What to know
This week's ensemble predicts that the number of new weekly laboratory-confirmed influenza hospital admissions will remain stable or have an uncertain trend nationally, with 1,200 to 4,400 new laboratory-confirmed influenza hospital admissions likely reported in the week ending May 14, 2022.
Interpretation of forecasts
- Reported and forecasted new influenza hospitalizations as of April 18, 2022.
- This week, 16 modeling groups contributed one or more forecasts that were eligible for inclusion in the new hospitalization ensemble forecasts for at least one jurisdiction. Contributing teams are listed below.
- Ensemble forecasts combine diverse independent team forecasts into one forecast. They have been among the most reliable forecasts in performance for previous influenza and COVID-19 forecasts, but even the ensemble forecasts may not reliably predict rapid changes in the trends.
- The figure shows the number of new confirmed influenza hospital admissions reported in the United States each week from September 26 through April 16 and forecasted new influenza hospital admissions per week over the next 4 weeks, through May 14. Effective February 2, 2022, hospitals are required to report laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations to HHS Protect daily. Prior to this update, reporting influenza hospitalizations was optional (noted as grey in the above figure). COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting and FAQs has additional details on this guidance.
State Forecasts
State-level forecasts show the predicted number of new influenza hospital admissions per week for the next 4 weeks by state. Each state forecast figure uses a different scale due to differences in the number of new influenza hospital admissions per week between states and only forecasts included in the ensemble are shown. Plots of the state-level ensemble forecasts and the underlying data can be downloaded below.
Additional forecast data and information about submitting forecasts are available.