Posted on 04/09/2020 5:07:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Did you hear about the 2017-2018 U.S. flu season? How about the 2017-18 flu season overwhelming the hospitals and creating bed and ICU bed shortages?
Neither did I, but it was the worst flu season in recent years.
During the 2017-2018 flu season the CDC’s preliminary estimate is that 810,000 patients were hospitalized. It is still a preliminary estimate, so that the upper range of uncertainty is 1.4 million hospitalizations due to the flu during the 2017-2018 season. That flu season also had the highest peak hospitalizations in recent years.
That hospitalization peak was the highest in recent years ran from the last week of December through the third or fourth week of January. Based on numbers from graphs at Advisory.com, one can estimate that in the last week of December 2017, 29,430 people were hospitalized due to the flu. The first week of January the estimated number of people hospitalized peaked at 33,354. The next week, the second week of January, the number tapered off a bit to 32,046 hospitalizations. The final week of the four-week peak saw 29,193 hospitalizations due to the flu. In total during the four-week peak of the 2017-2018 flu season, 123,093 people were hospitalized for flu. If you want to add the fourth week of January, when it was estimated that 27,795 patients were hospitalized with the flu, the U.S. hospital system handled 151,728 patients during a five-week period.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It is estimated that about 80% of those infected with Covid-19 experience a mild case [WHO said the like] – about as serious as a regular cold – and recover without needing any special treatment. while a study in Iceland reports that half of coronavirus carriers show no symptoms, which statistically lowers the death rate vs. calculating it from reported cases. Those who are most vulnerable to death from Covid-19 are the aged with certain other heath conditions, thus 80 percent of US coronavirus deaths are people 65 and older. Then again, America murders over 2,000 of the most vulnerable souls a day (2017: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states), while (for perspective) about 90 people die each day in the US from crashes, which are among the over 7,000 Americans who die every day in the US from a wide range of causes. (https://www.weisspaarz.com/leading-causes-death-by-state/)
I’ve been reading a lot of articles about corona “related” deaths at convalescent homes. I believe that a lot of the deaths if not most are happening at these locations. Not a mystery.
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We blew through the H1N1 pandemic without hardly a whisper. We lose tens of thousands each year to the basic flu. This year the nation goes nuts on the Coronavirus.
If the boring old flu could attract some celebrity endorsements from Tom Hanks or Justin Trudeau then maybe next season we’ll get excited...
Perhaps the author is onto something.
The CDC is still trying to produce a “preliminary estimate” of what happened two years ago.
Yes, but that wasn’t an election year.
But don't you worry. We've got a building full of bureaucrats working on it and we should have the final numbers by 2022.
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This issue needs much attention. Otherwise sensible people can be panicked into believing that “temporary” draconian measures are needed to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. All it takes is some photos from Italy. If there’s reasoned uncertainty, we can err on the side of caution, but the current hysteria causes us to err on the side of mass closures.
DEHYDRATION. SHORTAGES OF IV SOLUTIONS. There has been a IV shortage since 2012. The flu was so overwhelming they could not keep up, nurses made them then, what cost a few cents shot up to $400-700 a Unit.
Trump should have kept Brewerys open and produced Saline and Purified Water. Easy to distribute to nursing home, where the elderly are already partialy Dehhydrated. Young child,babies are as subsetible to Dehriation.
You can’t rely on under hydration sports drinks and chicken broth, even at home.
Obamacare Doubled then Trippled the flu shot for Seniors and youth. Who were already high risk patients. Ordinarly people had the single dose. Those who had the double, tripple shot spent 2 weeks going at both ends. Thus were severely dehydrated.
I had only the single as I am NOT stupid, I’m high Risk, veins small, hard stick as a result of lack of knowledge by undertrained people. Use the right size IV Pic and avoid the roller veins no issue, but they think they know better than the person who has had Blown Veins, know which are rollers. From the many trips to the ER and hospital stays. 5 blown veins before they found 1 that stuck 24 hrs before falling out. When they did my Cardio work up, incompent tech punctured both elbow larger veins, injected the dye contrast. Took her 45 minutes to find a nurse who stuck it 1 try. Then had to hunt down her tech kit which you could see across the open doorway in next room. SENILE OLD FOOL.
WHON concocks the strains? CDC. BEEN WRONG SINCE 2012.
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