Posted on 01/03/2025 1:08:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
A quadruple-whammy of viruses are hitting the US as millions go back to work after the holidays, data shows.
Official figures reveal that infections cause by flu, Covid, RSV (a respiratory illness that causes the cold) and norovirus (sometimes called the stomach flu) all started to surge over the Christmas period, when families gathered to celebrate.
And experts say figures will only continue to rise over the coming weeks as the US heads into the peak period of its annual flu season.
Data shows that norovirus cases are at their highest level for this time of year since 2012, while RSV hospitalizations are up nearly 40 percent in two weeks.
An estimated 3.1million people have been sickened by the flu so far this season, while 37,000 have been hospitalized and 1,500 have died. And the number of states with 'very high' levels of the disease has quadrupled in a week to eight.
There have also been an estimated 2.5 to 4.4million Covid cases between October 1 and December 7, estimates suggest, including 72,000 to 120,000 hospitalizations and 8,200 to 13,000 deaths.
The surge in infections is prompting a return of mask mandates in some states, with a hospital system in Wisconsin this week becoming the latest to reinstate them.
Hospitals in parts of California, Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey have also brought back the rules for staff and visitors. Officials in New York City are urging people to consider wearing a face mask on public transport.
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Even Phauccee admitted the masks were mostly useless.
cloth/paper masks are about as good at stopping viruses as chain-link fencing is at stopping mosquitoes ...
large amounts of published research across the globe have shown masking as useless to stop respiratory viruses ...
Looks like blue states are going to try to get at Trump with the virus again.
Not gonna work this time fellas...Go ahead and kill your blue state economies. I know I don’t care.
Ivermectin is the cheap panacea that Big Pharma refuses to acknowledge.
Your move.
Same old sh*t, different election....
Awesome , New York is urging masks on public transport, is that to make it harder to identify the people burning others or pushing them in front of trains?
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Well, given what I have smelled on NYC public transport, maybe that isn’t such a bad idea.
It is time for officials who do this to be prosecuted for violating our rights and harming our health. The science clearly shows that this is all BS and does nothing to protect anyone. The masks do however cause serous harm.
Virtue signaling from the Trump Resistance Faction. Comical.
Lockdowns coming?-Democrats destroying their blue states. Norhing new.
walking around with a face mask gives the FBi trash more opportunities to plant pipe bombs and such. May they all burn in hell.
Virus working folks wearing those full face masks vs the paper ones we’re required to wear.
NYC public transportation protective gear
Rifle is not optional.
Masks are good for warming the cold air as I take a breath.
I got sick after Christmas. Don’t think it was relatives, probably outings at stores and dealing with strangers, plus was at the hospital for a medical checkup; I’m in my mid-70’s. I rarely if ever catch a cold or flu. Wife always wears a mask in public because of low immunity, but I realize masks are mostly useless.
Started with a bad cough, lots of pee, sleepless nights where I’d be lucky to sleep 2 hours. Nausea when shown food, so I couldn’t eat. It’s been a week now and I’m starting to eat again, and the coughing is less prevalent. I self-diagnosed myself as having RSV illness. Mostly confined to upper respiratory tract, not in my lungs.
I did not contact my doctor, as I hate dealing with doctors and hospitals. He has been after me to lose some weight. Well, he’ll be happy to hear that I lost almost 9 pounds in the last week.
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