Posted on 02/28/2020 5:10:43 AM PST by LouAvul
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health's weekly flu activity summary, the number of flu deaths have increased by 2, making the total 45 in Oklahoma since Sept. 1.
OSDH reports the number of new hospitalizations reported between February 16 - February 22, 2020 are 313.
OSDH report shows the number of new and previously reported hospitalizations with testing between Sept. 1, 2019 - Feb. 15, 2020 are 2001.
OSDH is now reporting deaths related to the flu have increased by 2 between Feb. 16 and Feb. 22, making the total for Oklahoma 45 cumulative deaths. Ten of the total flu deaths are out of Tulsa County.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health, the Tulsa Health Department and the Oklahoma City-County Health Department say this year's flu virus is particularly unusual and they expect it to be severe.
The number of flu deaths in Tulsa County and in Oklahoma is on the rise, officials say.
As with flu, the statistics for WuHan can only be partial and skewed toward mortality. Many, perhaps most are never reported because they consist of a day or two of sniffles.
True, but, to keep everything in perspective......
How many cases of chicken pox? Because that is just as relevant.
The correct measurement of lethality is deaths / cases.
You will have just as much doubt about the number of Wuhan cases as the number of flu cases because both will have very mild instances.
Cases that need the hospital the data so far shows Wuhan about 68 times more lethal than flu. Flu is not a non-human animal virus. The human body doesn’t know what to do with Wuhan. Keeping the patient alive long enough for defenses to mount is much more challenging than with flu.
People die from flu? Who knew? Trump Flu? //sarc//. The very young or old (people with suppressed or not developed immune systems) are more likely to die from flu, or in the case of today’s hysteria, Coronavirus.
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