Posted on 01/24/2020 11:01:00 AM PST by buckalfa
After declining in the first two weeks of the year, flu activity jumped in the week ending Jan. 18, according to the CDC's most recent FluView report.
Six things to know:
1. The CDC estimates flu has caused 15 million illnesses, 140,000 hospitalizations and 8,200 deaths this season.
2. More than half of positive flu tests confirmed in public health laboratories have occurred in Americans under age 25. Only 12 percent involved adults age 65 and older. This trend has led to high levels of outpatient cases and lower levels of flu-related hospitalizations.
3. Thirty-five states experienced high flu-like illness activity in the week ending Jan. 18. Six states experienced moderate activity, eight states experienced low activity and Idaho experienced minimal activity.
4. The CDC confirmed 15 additional pediatric flu deaths, bringing the total to 54 for the 2019-20 season.
5. The flu's geographic spread remained the same for the week ending Jan. 18, with 48 states reporting widespread flu activity.
6. The overall flu-associated hospitalization rate was 24.1 per 100,000 people, up from 19.9 per 100,000 people a week prior. The CDC has recorded 7,013 flu-associated hospitalizations since Oct. 1, 2019.
I guess it would depend on which agency is giving out the statistics and if there are enough numbers of this virus outside of China to give an adequate assessment.
We know we can’t really trust what China says.
I think the huge quarantine might tell us more than what is actually said.
The numbers associated with the new virus are not terrible so it is being over hyped.
However, being something new it’s good to watch closely for trouble.
So it’s something to keep an eye on, but nothing to lose sleep over.
Need to see how things develop over the next month or so.
Normally I ignore these stories until after they have run their course - and my life was completely unaffected.
6. The overall flu-associated hospitalization rate was 24.1 per 100,000 people, up from 19.9 per 100,000 people a week prior. The CDC has recorded 7,013 flu-associated hospitalizations since Oct. 1, 2019.
So the CDC "estimates" hospitalizations are 20 times higher than the actual recorded number?
The most important question for me is the actual mortality rate for this virus. The large quarantines and the closing of Disney World China may tell us that mortality is worse than being reported. On the other hand, it could be a major over-reaction.
I came down with it last weekend, but I didn’t bother going to the doctor. There’s no point. There’s nothing they can do until it runs its course. Started taking Tussin to clear out my lungs. It works pretty well.
Not every case of flu is tested or confirmed. Most are treated empirically. The quick swab in the ER for flu is basically worthless. I have many cases where the screening swab is negative and later testing confirms flu. This is the epidemic we should be worried about now . Whether the Chinese virus will turn out to be as bad time will tell.
Friend at work has a Chinese friend who says the news in China is that thousands of people are dying of it in the United States.
Now we know why Google helps them lock down the Interwebs.
I can’t speak directly to the coronavirus or these numbers; I can tell you that I picked up a bug on travel the Saturday before Christmas, and it mutated into one of the worst respiratory infections I’ve had for several years. I fought it with OTC meds for two weeks and refused to go to a urgent care clinic, preferring to wait until I returned so I could see my family doctor. The earliest he could see me was 72 hours because his waiting room was packed ike a can of sardines - it was like everyone got it at once. It took Prednisone to open my airway up, Azithromycin to fight the bug, and a bottle of codeine cough syrup to help my throat heal. It’s been a month now, and my voice is still raspy, but I’ve otherwise flushed it out of my system. Oddly, the one symptom I didn’t have was a fever of any sort, but I’m still drinking double my usual fluid intake (not factoring in my daily beer consumption).
“I think the huge quarantine might tell us more than what is actually said.”
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Besides that, the CCCP is not given to spreading news about how bad things are in China, it wants “everything is sunshine and roses” to be the narrative - so when they grudgingly admit that there maybe just might be a problem, that also speaks loudly.
As it does every year this year is no exception. It’s one of the largest public health threats in this country. it not sexy to talk about I guess unless to run down vaccines or the medical profession. I guarantee there will be similar numbers next year as well
“Thirty-five states experienced high flu-like illness activity in the week ending Jan. 18”
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End date was too early to derive anything from it re: any influence of Chinese-imported flu.
The CDC is not interested in controlling disease. This is why they say nothing about the open borders, against quarantines, think it’s great you can poop on the streets in San Francisco as if that will not eventually lead to disease, are for bio sludge being spread on crops in the State of Washington, and think CO2 is bad even their is what trees and plants breath. The flu vaccines have almost never been the correct strain. So why do they push fly vaccines if they are the correct strain?
Getting back to your question. I think the Corona Virus is the first of many potential pandemics that will have eventually lead to forced vaccinations or medical tyranny that are trained with a slow kill that will eventually kill off most of the population. This is why they have secret vaccine courts , and at the very same time ignore the points I listed at the beginning.
CDC does not control disease. That is all you need to know.
I live in area that has a large Asian population.
Thank you for your low crime rate and exceptional work ethic.
P.S. - please leave indigenous diseases in your home country.
11 deaths so far in DFW
Here’s hoping it is only the flu.
No malice herer - just wondering - was it true that the vaccine chosen this season did not protect particularly well against the strains that were actually showing up?
Thanks much, for your insight
Tatt
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