Summary

• Emergency room visits and hospitalizations for all causes are down slightly across all age groups (-5%). This decline is more pronounced among children aged 2 to 14 (-10%).

• Emergency room visits for influenza are down across all age groups (-40%), with a lower proportion of cases compared to the previous two years. The proportion of hospitalizations among influenza-related visits is also down sharply (-55% across all ages) but remains higher than in the previous two years.

• Among other seasonal illnesses, the number of emergency room visits is down across all age groups, with the exception of visits for ENT conditions among adults aged 75 and older (+16%). This decline is more pronounced for bronchitis (-24%), and stands at around -10% for visits due to pneumonia, isolated fever, gastroenteritis, and asthma. Furthermore, although the sample sizes are small, there has been an increase in the number of hospitalizations for bronchitis among children under 15 (+9, or +30%) and for ENT conditions among children under 2 and adults aged 75 and older (+29, or +14%).

• Notably, there was an increase in hospitalizations for urinary tract infections among children under 2 years of age (+14%), and for skin and subcutaneous infections among children aged 2 to 14 years (+14%).