Posted on 03/09/2020 7:49:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided a grim reminder of the toll that the flu has taken on Americans. The CDC said that so far this season, about 20,000 people have died of the flu, including 136 children.
The CDC's most recent flu report says that as of February 29, hospitalization rates among children aged 4 and under were the highest on record at this point in the season, surpassing rates reported during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. The 136 children's deaths also mark the highest on record since the 2009 pandemic.
In all, the CDC estimates about 34 million people have gotten the flu so far this season and 350,000 have been hospitalized.
The agency also reminded the public that this year's flu vaccines are extremely effective. "Almost all (>99%) of the influenza viruses tested this season are susceptible to the four FDA-approved influenza antiviral medications recommended for use in the U.S. this season," the CDC said on its website.
On "CBS This Morning" in January , Dr. Tara Narula explained why the numbers of child deaths from flu is up so much this year.
"The word we use about the flu is unpredictable, and it's been unpredictable," Dr. Narula said. "Because we've seen a shift in the predominant strain, which is usually influenza A. This year it's influenza B. That hasn't happened since the 1992-1993 flu season. And we know that influenza B tends to affect children more. They tend to have more severe reaction to influenza B."
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See my revised statement above.
So, a death-so-far/spread rate of 0.06%.
High spread (about 80% over typical so far). Low fatality rate.
Ironically, by making people more likely to pay attention to their personal hygene and get their flu shots... there is a very good chance that the coronavirus will prevent millions of illnesses and save far more lives in the USA than the number of people that it takes. Despite this years flu vaccine being one of the most effective in years we were on a trajectory for a very bad flu season.
I remember one of the major history articles a few years ago about the 1918 pandemic said that virus attacked children and young people much more than older ones. Something about the cells needing to be stronger to hold the virus long enough to take over, so strong cell walls of young people helped it. I may be wrong on all of this.
I remember they said there were not enough young men to get into the military in countries with the virus compared to needed troop strength to fight.
Do truly knowledegable FReepers know about this? Is this epidemic really different from 1918 for that reason?
Which was a great book.
Where is it over 6%? The highest I’ve seen is 4% (Wuhan, China, and Italy).
I am not disagreeing with you. I have been thinking about H1N1. I wonder if there are more old codgers now than there were then? With the boomers fast approaching their 80’s there have to be more old folks in the “sweet spot” of this virus.
Could they be freaking out more because they are in the cross hairs?
Scroll up.
Yes, funny, but the Dr.Oz advice today on the Fox news site actually includes:
Meditate---- because a stressful state can make one susceptible to illness more readily!
Because it’s Normal.
Hospitals are sized and staffed to handle it. There are fairly effective vaccines.
This is new. It is concurrent.
I would tell you MOST people in the US had no idea how deadly the flu has been. It’s just the flu.
This is new. That’s about it.
My mother (1914-2012) always told me and my three siblings that she had the Spanish Flu when she was about four. Had but vague memories of being sick. She said she wasn’t expected to live, but did. Had she not, the four of us and all our kids and grandkids would never have been.
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Family member leaving for Thailand Wednesday,refuses to cancel.
Then praise I God for that.
Maybe it’s ‘engineered’ to automatically ‘fix’ social Security and Medicare deficits.........................
Not to mention no less a person than the Surgeon General says the Coronavirus death rate is between 0.1 and 1%.
Applied to S Korea, it would imply that the Koreans have already found between all of them (and about 20% false positives), and about 1/8th of the 53,000 with hordes of effort.
What it sounds like, is that they put the COVID-19 data (where countries are proactively trying to track down everyone who has it), into the flu models (where countries just deal with the symptoms). You’d have to ask him what he actually meant though.
As you can see, she lived a long life. She was able to stay at home until she was about 94 or so. Doesn’t look like any of us will make that mark. My oldest brother (81) is has dementia that’s pretty advanced. Sister at 84 is slowing down rapidly, too.
Without kn doing the denominator (number of people infected) your 6% statistics is not only worthless but misleading and harmful.
How do you know without covid-19 test kits widely available?
I was at a grocery store this morning and lots of people were coughing. How do you know they don’t have the virus? Very few who cough, have some fever are running to have tested.
Therefore the number of people already infected could be huge.
That means your number could be way out of line and bogus.
Of course the corona virus is a scam! It’s a manufactured crisis to make useful idiots panic and run around in circles flapping their arms like chicken little, hoard toilet paper of all weird things, and mostly just DAMAGE TRUMP. The impeachment was a joke, so out came the false corona virus scare and crisis. Duh! Come on people, pull your heads out and use your critical thinking skills for a change. Sheesh! And lastly, and more importantly, there can’t be a true world wide pandemic until the church is removed from the Earth. There’s educated, and then there isn’t.
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