Posted on 04/10/2020 10:01:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
California’s 2019-20 flu season started off early – and with a bang.
According to the state Department of Public Health, clinical and commercial laboratories have not reported influenza activity this high this early in the flu season since the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009.
State epidemiologist Erin Murray said lab results are just one way that CDPH gauges the severity of flu in the state. Her team also tracks how many people were diagnosed with flu, but not admitted to a hospital. In looking at that statistic for this season, Murray said she had to go back to the 2014-15 season to find as much flu activity.
“We’re seeing a bit of everything right now,” Murray said. “We are seeing predominately influenza B/Victoria virus this year in California at the moment, and this is also being seen nationally. But we are also seeing influenza H1N1 and H3N2 viruses here in California, so we have a real mix, and there is a lot of variability across the U.S. as far as what’s predominating.”
Nationally, some epidemiologists had been predicting a rough flu season in the United States, pointing out that Australia provided a rough barometer for how bad the flu season would be in the Northern Hemisphere and that the Aussies had reported unusually high rates of influenza infection.
But Murray said: “It’s really difficult to say how severe the season here in California or the U.S. might be. What happens in the Southern Hemisphere is not necessarily predictive of what will happen here, but it definitely is informative and gives us things to look at in our own data as we go through our flu season.”
Friday’s report from the Department of Public Health showed that flu activity was elevated everywhere in California except five counties.
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at this point, if i got the flu, i’d want to try the hydroxy/zith(or doxy)/zinc combo if the hydroxy was available ...
Looks like we need another massive lock down. Save lives and all that. Cant have 70,000 fle deaths.
At least partial 'herd immunity.'
I posted this after listening to Rush.
CA could run Covid-19 antibody tests on those in CA that had ‘the flu’ in November and December.
A high % positive would to me to indicate they actually had Covid-19, no?
I’m in Phoenix and I’ve been off and on sick for 4 weeks. I’m sure it’s the flu.
All just a big coinkydink...
....... New York reported the same thing in December ... Flu cases were up 77% for some reason ....
Gee, we’re starting to see Bill Gates all over the place, aren’t we?
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