Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the nation, the numbers show.

COVID-19, according to CDC data. Rates of influenza hospitalizations are more than three times higher than COVID-19 hospitalizations amid this season's record wave of flu infections. Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb.

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

Flu cases are surging across the country and here in the Philadelphia region, where doctors say cases could be growing because of so many people were celebrating the Eagles at Super Bowl parties, where flu easily spreads.