Posted on 12/30/2017 1:38:11 PM PST by familyop
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ILINet State Activity Indicator Map: Data collected in ILINet are used to produce a measure of ILI activity* by state. Activity levels are based on the percent of outpatient visits in a state due to ILI and are compared to the average percent of ILI visits that occur during weeks with little or no influenza virus circulation. Activity levels range from minimal, which would correspond to ILI activity from outpatient clinics being below, or only slightly above, the average, to high, which would correspond to ILI activity from outpatient clinics being much higher than average.
During week 51, the following ILI activity levels were experienced:
21 states experienced high activity (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia).
New York City and five states experienced moderate ILI activity (Colorado, Hawaii, New York, North Dakota, and Virginia).
Eight states experienced low ILI activity (Alaska, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wyoming).
14 states experienced minimal ILI activity (Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin).
Data was insufficient to calculate an ILI activity level from the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and two states (Connecticut and North Carolina).
Out of curiosity, are you also mandated to receive the Hep B vaccine series?
During training yes
You too? What a coincidence!
My skepticism of some vaccination regiments is based on well founded concerns about s-o-m-e:
1. vaccine’s ingredient safety,
2. provable efficacy and
3. aggressive multi-dose vaccine schedule for children. (5 vaccines per dr visit)
The issue isn’t that vaccines are all good or bad.
Full disclosure of safety issues, efficacy/necessity and risk-benefit are all that I care about.
Unfortunately, there are individuals who feel emotionally threatened by anyone who questions US pharma-medical orthodoxy because it challenges their very identity, ie: beliefs, values and interests.
Pharma-medical profession idolatry is due in part from television and magazine programming of the last 90 years.
Unsurprisingly, other emotional-thinkers, ie: climate warming alarmists and socialists react similarly when their programming is threatened by critical thinking that undermines their mistaken beliefs.
I’m still waiting for my first side effect from the quadrivalent vaccine this year or the vaccine any previous year.
Those of us who are medical researchers and work with human cells or tissues are also required to get the Hep A and B vaccines. Plus, I also have to get the flu vaccine.
When people I know get the flu after getting the flu shot I suggest that they didn’t get a “whole dose” and to go back to wherever they got the shot and get another and this time make sure they get a double dose for free.
A lot of influenza experts get together several months before flu season to gather data on influenza strains that are currently circulating in the other hemisphere. They anticipate that the strains that were/are prevalent in the southern hemisphere's most recent flu season will be prevalent during our next flu season. This is not always the case, for a number of reasons.
It is H3N2, and it is included in the current vaccine. The vaccine also includes H1N1 and a Victoria type influenza B. If it is a quadrivalent vaccine, it also includes a Yamagata type influenza B.
I received a quadrivalent vaccine produced in cells this year. No chicken embryos died this year to make my flu vaccine!
Like beliefs that vaccines are harmful? All medications have side effects vaccines included. What the antivaxxers forget is a century ago 1/2 the babies born didn’t make it to adulthood, many due to diseases that are exceedingly rare today (or should be) thanks to vaccines.
It’s because they now control your truck and everything you own. All your base belong to them....
There’s certainly a problem with those pesky Russians squealing to the whole earthling population about our reptilian masters’ plans with Big Pharma for the mother planet Nibiru. In the following video, you’ll see Exhibit A: the Russians, even trying to reenact what they saw while snooping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVj0ZTS4WF4
Oh, thanks for that info. Our church usually provides ‘em to members, but somehow we missed this year. My wife’s employer also provided such for her and our daughter, but not me. :-(
So instead for Christmas week I got a respiratory virus (but not flu) with a bad head cold laid over it. Pretty well knocked me out for a couple days — am now finally & slowly feeling a lot better. No more “kidneys hurt with a slight cough” / can’t say one sentence w/o coughing.
I figure my lungs are my weak point even tho’ I never smoked, and pneumonia will get me someday, like my Dad (who also did not smoke.)
Like I stated doc,
Some people’s emotional identity are so wed to absolute beliefs that it’s not possible for them to consider rational discussion of anything that introduces reconsideration of their orthodoxy.
I reasonably question the value, safety, efficacy / necessity of SOME vaccines and I receive indignant doc huff puffery reply to “go see our patients on ventilators”.
Typical dumb down doc tawk...
No discussion of best guess flu strain vaccine’s piss poor efficacy for actual real world influenza.
Why are so many flu vaccinated individuals hospitalized for flu if the flu shot is so crucial for wellness?
And common practice of NOT identifying actual strain of influenza suspected to have contributed to patient death to determine flu vaccination efficacy.
The state of current influenza vaccine efficacy is ridiculous.
Maybe I should say that I only THINK I did not have a flu variant. Is there any information somewhere of how different 2017-2018 flu variants’ symptoms may differ?
The influenza vaccine is far from perfect but it’s the best we have If one is young and relatively healthy it’s probabiy a wash. For the elderly and chronically ill influenza can be devastating and any chance at preventing or ameliorating it is probably worth it YMMV
As one who worked with inmates (25 yrs), I was mandated to be TB tested annually. The Hep A and B vaccines along with the current flu vaccines were offered but not mandated. The Hep B vaccine made sense in that carrier status could prevent my ability to render care for a prolonged time period. In my circumstance I didn’t consider Hep A a great enough risk for the vaccine considering it’s primary transmission is improper food handling. The risk/benefit ratio for the flu vaccine, for me, wasn’t great enough to warrant it’s usage. From my research, the effectiveness for the vaccine for any given year over time was in the 40-50% range. Complications from the vaccine are in the 5-9% range. As I mentioned before, I rarely became sick in spite of my patient pool.
I can't agree with that. Looking at it from "outside", as I am not a medical professional, and considering it as a technical or engineering type problem, influenza is a very formidable challenge to deal with... The more one knows about it, the more "impressive" the challenge is.
My guess is that we will not reduce influenza to "nuisance level" until we have about 50 years more under our belts with regard to viruses in general, and our immune systems as well, or perhaps when we develop effective, safe, Star Trek type "nanites" to bolster human immune systems.
This barring, of course, some genius level breakthrough, the timing of which cannot be predicted.
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