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US flu activity slides, death toll holds steady at 24K
WKYT ^ | 04/10/2020 | Ed Payne

Posted on 05/03/2020 6:45:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

ATLANTA (Gray News) – America’s flu season continues to ebb even as COVID-19 cases increase, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Lab-confirmed flu cases are now low, but the CDC believes that’s because fewer people are going to doctors because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Overall flu-like activity is lower than a week ago but is still elevated.

“The percent of deaths associated with pneumonia and influenza is above the epidemic threshold,” the agency said Friday.

“The increase is due to an increase in pneumonia deaths rather than influenza deaths and likely reflects COVID-19 activity.”

The severity of this season’s flu viruses remains moderate to low overall.

The CDC estimates that so far there have been at least 24,000 deaths from flu, 39 million flu illnesses and 410,000 hospitalizations.

Hospitalization rates differ by age group, with high rates among children and young adults.

A total of 166 influenza-associated deaths in children have been reported this season. That’s an increase of 4 since last week’s report.

“This number is high compared to recent seasons but remains lower than the 2017-2018 season during which 188 pediatric deaths were reported, the CDC said.

Flu activity was high in the District of Columbia and 19 states.

It was moderate in Alabama, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Washington.

It was low in California, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.

Only minimal amounts of flu were reported in Puerto Rico, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Flu shots are recommended for everyone 6 months of age and older.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: deathtoll; flu
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Flu activity was high in the District of Columbia and 19 states. (Source: CDC)
1 posted on 05/03/2020 6:45:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder how many seasonal flu deaths have been moved to the COVID-19 category?


2 posted on 05/03/2020 6:50:20 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Would love to have an unbiased analysis of the methodology the CDC uses to accurately determine how many people really died of influenza. The methodology uses hocus pocus algorithms.


3 posted on 05/03/2020 6:50:40 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: BwanaNdege

Most of them...


4 posted on 05/03/2020 6:51:25 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: SeekAndFind

The experts don’t want to mention the obvious. People are being careful due to COVID and that means that fewer people are being infected by the flu as well.


5 posted on 05/03/2020 6:58:32 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: SeekAndFind

Not the current map at all, most of the country is green right now... https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#ILIActivityMap


6 posted on 05/03/2020 7:14:27 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Brilliant

Except New Jersey for some reason.


7 posted on 05/03/2020 7:14:56 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Does anybody believe that there is a strong discipline being applied to distinguish between Flu and Covid-19 deaths?

Certainly NOT when politics and money is involved!!!

8 posted on 05/03/2020 7:20:26 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: SeekAndFind

That is because they are throwing every death in the Covid19 column. Why are H1N1 flu deaths DOWN by thousands? Those were added into the Covid19 Column. The damned Democrats have even politicized this. Look at the states still closed down ... mostly Democrat.


9 posted on 05/03/2020 7:35:52 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Congress is not made up of leaders however they are representatives of their voters.)
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To: BwanaNdege; BenLurkin

Ah, but you are not allowed to ask that question.
! You are not even allowed to think of such a question.


10 posted on 05/03/2020 7:35:58 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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To: kingu
Thanks for the map from the CDC. For those who are interested, here's the current data:

Nationwide during week 17, 1.8% of patient visits reported through the U.S. Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet) were due to influenza-like illness (ILI). This percentage is below the national baseline of 2.4%.

national levels of ILI and ARI
View Chart Data (current season only) | View Full Screen

On a regional level, the percentage of outpatient visits for ILI ranged from 0.9% to 3.7% during week 17. Compared to last week, the percent of outpatient visits for ILI increased in region 5, but decreased in all other regions. Regions 1, 2, 3, and 10 reported a percentage of outpatient visits for ILI above their region-specific baselines. All other regions are below their region-specific baselines.

ILI Activity Map

Data collected in ILINet are used to produce a measure of ILI activity* by state.

During week 17, the following ILI activity levels were experienced:


11 posted on 05/03/2020 7:40:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Totally hyped compared to other causes of death. State by State is also a joke. In the entire State of Texas only 446 CV deaths and the entire State was shut down along with other States with hardly any deaths. What is wrong with people believing this crap.


12 posted on 05/03/2020 7:41:42 AM PDT by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: allendale

Maybe the people who are dying have both the flu and the wuflu. Double whammy.


13 posted on 05/03/2020 7:42:55 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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And a lot of those 24k Wuhan flu deaths are probably fake also...


14 posted on 05/03/2020 7:46:09 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: SeekAndFind
The CDC estimates that so far there have been at least 24,000 deaths from flu...

I wonder where that number came from. I checked the CDC website and it says the estimated number of deaths from influenza this flu season is 62 000 (as of 4 Apr, the most recent I could find).

15 posted on 05/03/2020 8:02:42 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: allendale

I believe they use the death certificate submitted by the local authorities. So the CDC is just the collector of whatever the local authorities say.


16 posted on 05/03/2020 8:26:15 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: carikadon

Most of the Texas deaths are in Long term care facilities and Nursing homes.

Protect the vulnerable and the elderly, and the rest of us can get back to work.


17 posted on 05/03/2020 8:27:36 AM PDT by UNGN
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To: Brilliant

And it’s May for chrissakes.


18 posted on 05/03/2020 8:27:45 AM PDT by riri (If people still dropping, most aint shopping.)
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To: SeekAndFind

WTH are you posting this article from April 10??


19 posted on 05/03/2020 8:43:09 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

GEE I WONDER WHY!!!


20 posted on 05/03/2020 8:47:44 AM PDT by montag813
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