Posted on 01/06/2018 8:11:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
So many people have fallen sick with influenza in California that pharmacies have run out of flu medicines, emergency rooms are packed, and the death toll is rising higher than in previous years. Health officials said Friday that 27 people younger than 65 have died of the flu in California since October, compared with three at the same time last year.
Nationwide and in California, flu activity spiked sharply in late December and continues to grow.
The emergency room at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica typically treats about 140 patients a day, but at least one day this week had more than 200 patients — mostly because of the flu, said the ER’s medical director, Dr. Wally Ghurabi.
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The flu season is typically worst around February, but can reach its height anytime from October to April.
Though influenza had only only killed three Californians at this time last year, it had taken 68 lives by the end of February, according to state data.
Many California doctors, however, contend that the recent surge has been unusually severe.
“Rates of influenza are even exceeding last year, and last year was one of the worst flu seasons in the last decade,” said Dr. Randy Bergen, clinical lead of the flu vaccine program for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California.
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What is the hold up on secession?
Get behind the illegals in the emergency room.
They have more of a “right” to health care than citizens...
Killed some of my direct Ancestors living here in the U.S., nasty strain.
The second year of a 10% effective flu vaccine, ERs packed with illegals from all over the world, Obamacare patients, high numbers of the elderly….the resulting epidemic should have been expected and prepared for in CA.
Let them suck on illegal pot. They will either die or live through it,
LOL..funny. :)
I have read accounts of young men leaving for work healthy and dying of the flu during the walk to work.
Back during that epidemic?
All this so called flu is dope smoke lung infections. pass me your disease infected “refer” so I can suck your disease into my lungs!!
They apparently missed the mark badly with this year’s vaccine.
Anyone seen any info on the percentage that had been previously vaccinated for this season?
“Killed some of my direct Ancestors living here in the U.S., nasty strain.”
Mine too. It was bad because it killed healthy younger people and did so very quickly. Cytokine storm. Very, very nasty.
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There’s trivalent and quadrivalent vaccines. What percentage got which, or none at all? I have seen no info.
The doctor never came back after visiting my faher during the flu pandemic. When my grandparents confronted him a few weeks later, he expressed shock, “I never thought he would live past that day”, he explained.
LOL...our job isn’t done yet — we haven’t infected enough of the other 49 states.
Secession will only make matters worse, genius...
Let me think, might there be a connection between this article and California being by far the location of the most ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THE UNITED STATES (AND THEIR PROGENY)?
Thieves, killers and rapists is the least of it...
Exotic diseases, DUIs, epidemic of lice, fleas, vermin filled households, physical violence--- the whole panoply of nightmares.
I happen to think there IS a connection!
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