ever wonder why our flu/pneumonia season goes from 1.8/1000 in Nov to 1.9 in December to 48.1 in Jan to now 57.9/1000 for Feb? Could it be travelers? It’s a mistake to look at the USA as being in a vacuum.
“the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.”
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cdc website:
“Key indicators that track flu activity remain high but decreased for the third week in a row. Severity indicators (hospitalizations and deaths) remain moderate to low overall, but hospitalization rates differ by age group, with high rates among children and young adults.”
The overall cumulative hospitalization rate for the season increased to 57.9/1000
The percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza increased to 6.9%
11 influenza-related pediatric deaths were reported this week for a total of 136 pediatric deaths
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
Even still, high early-season vaccination rates and a relatively effective annual vaccine appeared to help suppress illnesses.
In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died.
That’s fairly on par with a typical season, and well below the CDC’s 2017-2018 estimates of 48.8 million illnesses, 959,000 hospitalizations and 79,400 deaths.
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Once again over 60k died from the flu in the 2018-2019 flu season.!!
This is normal!!
People don't stop traveling,close their businesses, stop doing business,raid the stores, or anything of the sort!!They go about their business as we should be doing.!!
Let’s not feed the troll, he’ll burn out.