Despite a significant uptick in flu cases, it seems the US is not on the verge of a pandemic after all.<br /><br />According to the latest FluView report from the CDC, flu related healthcare visits are down this week.<br /><br />In all, 6 % of deaths across the country during the most recent surveillance period were attributable to influenza.<br /><br />The CDC's threshold for declaring a pandemic is 6.9%.<br /><br />Still, the CDC estimates that at least 13 million Americans have been sickened by the virus so far this flu season.
