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Winter surge in infections from RSV, flu, and COVID straining U.S. hospitals
PBS ^ | 12/15/2022 | By — William Brangham By — Courtney Norris

Posted on 12/17/2022 1:51:14 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The White House is warning of a surge of illness this holiday season, as the country deals with the simultaneous uptick of three, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Hospitals across the country are filling up with patients suffering from flu, RSV and COVID. William Brangham reports.

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KEYWORDS: covid; flu; rsv; winter
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Mask up, lockdown, and start crying under your bed. (S)
1 posted on 12/17/2022 1:51:14 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t they write this story a couple of years ago? And now they’re just changing a few words here and there?


2 posted on 12/17/2022 1:53:59 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sometimes the chance of a little personal suffering is not the worst thing in the world. This is one of those times.


3 posted on 12/17/2022 1:54:26 PM PST by firebrand
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t know who this “White House” is but they are nothing more than absolute morons, liars,perverts, pedophiles, and sexual deviants.

F*CK You White House!!!!


4 posted on 12/17/2022 1:56:28 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The germ that destroyed America.


5 posted on 12/17/2022 2:08:30 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is called the “cold and flu season” every year for a reason.


6 posted on 12/17/2022 2:09:16 PM PST by wrench
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WTF? I thought the flu was gone forever once the Fauci flu took over.


7 posted on 12/17/2022 2:10:39 PM PST by crz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dr. Tami Hendriksz:

And it’s not like you just get one virus and you’re done. You can stack them. And we see that. We see kids who have RSV and flu and COVID, plus strep on top of it. There’s — it’s just — yes, it’s really scary.

Crippled immune systems?


8 posted on 12/17/2022 2:11:52 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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Upstate NY...NOT unusual for our schools to shut down for a couple weeks until the local pediatricians say numbers are going down.


9 posted on 12/17/2022 2:23:57 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Flick Lives

It sure is baffling.
Whatever has changed in kids’ immune systems since last year when there was almost NO FLU and very rare cases of serious covid in kids

Hmmm….


10 posted on 12/17/2022 2:24:30 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

STOP! Fed up with the Chicken Little administration propagandists


11 posted on 12/17/2022 2:26:48 PM PST by map
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ECONOMIC VIEW:
Postpone Thanksgiving and Save Hundreds of Lives!
Giving thanks and getting together safely can be done with far less risk six months from now, an economist says.

While Macy’s presents a pandemic version of its annual parade next week, families can go even further by waiting until May to gather for a Thanksgiving.Credit...Calla Kessler/The New York Times

By Justin Wolfers
Nov. 19, 2020
Let’s postpone Thanksgiving until May 27. By then Americans should have a lot more to be thankful for, including the likely availability of at least two highly effective vaccines, perhaps the freedom to get together with friends and possibly the end of the current economic slump.

The date doesn’t have to be in exactly six months, but it should be soon after vaccines have made it safer to travel, spend time indoors with loved ones and break bread with older and more vulnerable members of the family.

Before dismissing this idea, hear me out.

First, picture what a November Thanksgiving will look like this year: a smaller group around the table, perhaps people wearing masks and coping with the awkwardness of a not-quite-a-hug across the room. And in the background will be echoes of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent warning that “household gatherings are an important contributor to the rise in Covid-19 cases.”

By contrast, a post-vaccine Thanksgiving offers greater possibilities: hugging loved ones, huddling around the dinner table and shouting at whatever sport is being shown on TV. There will be more love around the table, because you can invite your entire crew, not just those family or friends already in your bubble or those who are willing to risk their health.

After a year involving so much loss, Americans need a true Thanksgiving — infused with love and gratitude — rather than the constraints that will come from celebrating according to an arbitrary calendar date.

In economic terms, a later Thanksgiving would yield a larger benefit. It would also involve a much smaller cost. During a pandemic, the relevant costs are measured in health risk. Thanksgiving in November comes with a huge cost, in that you might catch the coronavirus, or spread it to loved ones and then even to the entire community. That cost is especially high right now, as infection rates soar.

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Moreover, news that at least two highly effective vaccines are likely to be available within several months has transformed the cost-benefit calculus of being Covid-careful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/business/thanksgiving-in-may.html


12 posted on 12/17/2022 2:32:50 PM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r)Near Year)
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--- Winter surge in infections from RSV, flu, and COVID straining U.S. hospitals"

Ooh. Erg.

Okay. Here comes the SURGE. I'm gonna pee BS.....

13 posted on 12/17/2022 2:33:01 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about the strain of caring for illegals, homeless, and others who can’t pay their bills?


14 posted on 12/17/2022 2:36:25 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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https://pagesix.com/2022/12/17/sharon-osbourne-hospitalized-after-medical-emergency-report/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9381493/Sharon-Osbourne-keeps-low-profile-gets-vaccine-outing-racism-row.html


15 posted on 12/17/2022 2:37:10 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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Yawn… déjà vuall over again.


16 posted on 12/17/2022 2:38:11 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Wrecked immune systems are the new flu epidemic. Trapped! More to come. Sad. Pause and reflect on Peter’s admonition in verse 11.
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The Man of Lawlessness – 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.


17 posted on 12/17/2022 2:38:11 PM PST by iontheball
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To: ChicagoConservative27
It's Covid 'vaccine' harm that is causing illness. First by suppressing immune response so people sicken from illnesses they would normally defeat.

But also, mRNA vaccines are know to have a history of causing ADE.

 
 

18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a COVID Vaccine

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The typical pattern in the studies referenced above is that the children and the animals produced beautiful antibody responses after being vaccinated. The manufacturers thought they hit the jackpot.

The problem came when the children and animals were exposed to the wild version of the virus.

When that happened, an unexplained phenomenon called antibody dependent enhancement, also known as vaccine enhanced disease, occurred where the immune system produced a “cytokine storm” (i.e. overwhelmingly attacked the body) and the children/animals died.

Here’s the lingering issue: The vaccine makers have no data to suggest their rushed vaccines have overcome that problem.

ransomnote: Vaccine induced ADE can have symptoms identical to those of illnesses like Covid. So now the monsters pushing toxic 'vaccines' are going to classify people sick or dying of vaccine induced ADE as if they contracted 'new' or otherwise unknown illnesses for which they will say we need even more toxic 'vaccines.'

18 posted on 12/17/2022 2:52:31 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would rather die than eat one more spoon of progressive BS.


19 posted on 12/17/2022 3:41:41 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh, the old normal. Live life like pre-COVID. Get your cold, flu and assorted viruses and improve your immune system, that’s if the experimental gene therapy didn’t all ready mess that up.


20 posted on 12/17/2022 4:16:45 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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