Posted on 11/30/2022 5:54:39 PM PST by algore
More than six million Americans have been infected with flu and nearly 3,000 have died from the disease so far since October — in the worst outbreak in a decade.
Latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also show there have been 53,000 hospitalizations in that time.
A total of 18 states reported 'very high' flu levels in the week ending November 19, four more than in the previous seven-day spell. New Mexico, Texas and Tennessee are the worst affected.
America's flu season began early this year, with seasonal viruses returning with a vengeance after lockdowns, face masks and other measures prevented exposure to healthy germs.
The wave of sickness has also sparked shortages of key drugs, including the children's frontline medication amoxicillin — used to treat fevers in children.
The CDC publishes weekly flu estimates on the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths sparked by the disease throughout the season.
The latest infection numbers are 36 per cent above the 4.4million cases estimated over the previous week, and more than double the 2.8million from a fortnight ago.
Deaths have also surged from 1,300 recorded a fortnight beforehand.
The hospitalization rate was 11.3 admissions per 100,000 people in the week to November 19, higher than at any other point at this time of year since 2010-2011.
Flu cases are now 66 per cent of the total number of infections recorded throughout the whole of last year, when there were 9million cases. The flu season typically runs from October to May.
Covid has accounted for 2.2million confirmed cases since October, but the actual number is likely far higher — with many cases missed due to lack of testing. The pandemic virus was also behind 14,000 deaths.
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Define "worked."
No flu last year, or was it being called Covid.
Law of unintended consequences of irrational, unscientific decisions.
Yep!
The COVID vaccine contributed to the destruction/weakening of the immune system in those people who took the jab + boosters. I’m certain there is a direct correlation to the FLU virus intensity (not outbreak) it has on a compromised immune system unable to fight the the viral load and keep it in check.
The outbreak isn’t greater... its the weakened immune systems that are unable to fight the FLU because of the COVID jab. The results are a higher death rate, higher comorbidity complications and a longer recovery time.
The CDC has been fudging flu death numbers for years, trying to scare ‘everyone’ into getting a flu shot. 3,000 have died since October??? See what they’ve been doing from the link below ... they were lying big time then, do you think they’re telling the truth now?
Flu Misinformation and Coronavirus Fears: My Letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4112240/posts
Fact: The HHS’s mortality and morbidity data—available on the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) website—show that CDC’s (and CNN’s) annual estimates are off by orders of magnitude.
NCHS data report the average number of mortalities attributable to influenza on death certificates is little more than 1,000. CDC devises its inflated estimate by deliberately conflating flu deaths with pneumonia deaths. This device is deceitful since most of these fatalities are unrelated to the flu (and therefore, impervious to flu vaccines). In 2005, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Editor, Dr. Peter Doshi, published a comprehensive rebuke of CDC’s annual ritual of exaggerating flu mortalities entitled “Dissecting CDC’s Deception: Are US Flu Death Figures More PR Than Science?” Doshi accuses the CDC of purposefully inflating flu deaths to frighten the public into purchasing vaccines. To illustrate CDC’s chicanery, Doshi observed that CDC’s announced number of reported pneumonia and influenza deaths in 2001 at 62,034. Yet less than half of one percent of those were actually attributed to influenza. Furthermore, of the mere 257 cases that could reasonably be blamed on the flu in CDC’s mortality data, only 7 percent were laboratory confirmed cases of influenza. That’s 18 lab confirmed influenza cases out of 62,034 “pneumonia and influenza” deaths—or just 0.03 percent, according to HHS’s own National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Subtracting pneumonia, the true number of influenza-associated deaths from 1979 to 2002 averaged 1,348, according to the NCHS data. CNN routinely reports figures forty times this number.
Dr. Doshi charges the CDC with deliberately lying about annual flu deaths to “[work] in manufacturers’ interest by conducting campaigns to increase flu vaccination”. He warns that “by arbitrarily linking flu with pneumonia, current data are statistically biased.”
By faithfully parroting CDC inflated numbers—with no due diligence—CNN has made itself complicit in this annual charade, making it difficult now to accurately assess the relative risk of COVID-19 as compared to flu and, therefore, rationally measure an appropriate response.
… 2010 meta-analysis of published influenza vaccine studies found that the influenza vaccination has no effect on hospitalization, and that there is no evidence that vaccines prevent viral transmission or complications.
But since Democrats get vaxxed in much higher proportion than conservatives, this works out to a net positive for the USA, right?
Just like abortion is percentagewise overwhelmingly murdering future Democrat voters.
Per the title, it was worse in 2012.
I was thinking the same thing.
They all have compromised/weakened immune systems, yes.
To varying degrees.
How it plays out depends on their original health levels, exactly which vax and how many shots they took, if they are taking boosters, age, what they get exposed to, are they already having health issues their bodies were fighting, dare they doing anything to strengthen their immune systems, etc.
LIES AND MORE LIES
“...chest feed your baby”
You did something there, I’m not sure what...
It was never very masky around where I live, even at the height of Covid hysteria in 2020-2021. We didn’t really social distance much either.
Infection rates were not especially high here. And there are people with flu now, but everyone I know rode it out and recovered.
Masks are gross. We weren’t made to breathe our own exhaust. And they become bacteria-laden after about 20 minutes of wear.
THANK YOU for posting the math. Funny how journalists can’t seem to grasp simple math. Wait till they spin this to infinity and beyond.
Brother in Florida is in his second week of this - even his Dr. has it! Over the counter medications only ease the suffering slightly....coughing makes it difficult to sleep. Fatigue is rough.
It’s just the flu. Don’t you have an immune system?
For 2 years there wasn’t a flu case in sight. It was all covid. What happened to change that? This is all panic porn. I’m tired of it. This will go on until we make it stop and stop participating.
What’s new about any of that?
Old people die from flu or any other disease every year.
No one lives forever.
.....”Covid measures over the past years reduce natural immunity to colds and flu.”.....
Family member is Florida has had two resperatory flu type symptom illnesses and now suffering his third currently after taking all the shots and boosters.
He doesn’t understand why he keeps getting this - Dr. says not covid, not flu.
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