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re: Where did the regular flu go?
Posted on 12/27/20 at 8:39 am to lsunurse
Posted on 12/27/20 at 8:39 am to lsunurse
FROM THE CDC:
How many people get sick with flu every year?
CDC conducts surveillance for people who see their health care provider for flu-like illness through the Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet); a network of thousands of health care providers who report the proportion of patients seeking care for flu-like illness weekly to CDC. This system allows CDC to track levels of medically attended flu-like illness over the course of the flu season. CDC does not know exactly how many people get sick with seasonal flu each year. There are several reasons for this including that ILINet does not include every health care provider and monitors flu-like illness, not laboratory-confirmed influenza cases. Also, flu illness is not a reportable disease and not everyone who gets sick with flu seeks medical care or gets tested.
CDC uses mathematical modeling in combination with data from traditional flu surveillance systems to estimate the numbers of flu illnesses in the United States. CDC estimates that flu has resulted in between 9.3 million and 45 million illnesses each year in the United States since 2010. For more information on these estimates see CDC’s Disease Burden of Influenza page. For more information on CDC surveillance systems, see CDC’s Overview of Influenza Surveillance in the United States.
How many people get sick with flu every year?
CDC conducts surveillance for people who see their health care provider for flu-like illness through the Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet); a network of thousands of health care providers who report the proportion of patients seeking care for flu-like illness weekly to CDC. This system allows CDC to track levels of medically attended flu-like illness over the course of the flu season. CDC does not know exactly how many people get sick with seasonal flu each year. There are several reasons for this including that ILINet does not include every health care provider and monitors flu-like illness, not laboratory-confirmed influenza cases. Also, flu illness is not a reportable disease and not everyone who gets sick with flu seeks medical care or gets tested.
CDC uses mathematical modeling in combination with data from traditional flu surveillance systems to estimate the numbers of flu illnesses in the United States. CDC estimates that flu has resulted in between 9.3 million and 45 million illnesses each year in the United States since 2010. For more information on these estimates see CDC’s Disease Burden of Influenza page. For more information on CDC surveillance systems, see CDC’s Overview of Influenza Surveillance in the United States.
This post was edited on 12/28/20 at 10:45 am
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Posted on 12/27/20 at 8:49 am to Fusaichi Pegasus
Flu repackaged as the covid.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 8:52 am to Fusaichi Pegasus
after experiencing covid, i'd take covid over the flu
flu knocked me out for a week, covid knocked me out for 2 days (then i had to do the shitty quarantine)
flu knocked me out for a week, covid knocked me out for 2 days (then i had to do the shitty quarantine)
Posted on 12/27/20 at 9:09 am to Fusaichi Pegasus
Lots of people that got flu shot this year are not dealing with covid so harshly as others...something to think about
Posted on 12/27/20 at 9:47 am to Jibbajabba
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Before March of this year, if you had flu like symptoms, the expectation by employers was that you would take some ibuprofen, toughen up, and come to work. Now, if you tell employers that you have a low grade temp, they don’t want you coming to work. Working while sick is a huge player in the transmission game and that has been cut out completely.
Agreed.
I also think people actually using basic hygiene practices regularly like hand washing contributes too.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 9:48 am to Jibbajabba
quote:
Before March of this year, if you had flu like symptoms, the expectation by employers was that you would take some ibuprofen, toughen up, and come to work. Now, if you tell employers that you have a low grade temp, they don’t want you coming to work. Working while sick is a huge player in the transmission game and that has been cut out completely.
Yup, you can't underestimate this sort of thing.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 9:56 am to Fusaichi Pegasus
Y'all clowns are trying way too hard to perpetuate this Parler myth.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 9:56 am to BHS78
quote:This is not you challenging anything. It's you being willfully ignorant.
It's funny that people like you do not like to be challenged by facts. If wearing masks has caused the flu cases to drop, then why are covid cases so high
This question was answered in this thread, and if we're being honest, you should know the answer to your question using simple logic before someone has to tell you the answer.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:05 am to Fusaichi Pegasus
Masks
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:08 am to hawaiiantiger
I'm as anti-government as it gets but if nothing, this pandemic has shown plenty of evidence that people won't do the right/smart thing without being forced. We need to stop proving them right.
This post was edited on 12/27/20 at 10:09 am
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:19 am to tide06
quote:
Want to hear a secret?
Some of the tests for covid detect both flu and covid. They also trigger false positives if you’ve had too much coffee or coke or whatever, but that’s another story for another day.
Covid tests are reimbursed at a much higher level for pharmacies than flu.
Want to guess what gets reported?
Bingo. Couple that with max cycle thresholds on the covid tests, creating more false positives than true positives and you have a never-ending casedemic.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:33 am to Mudminnow
quote:
Flu is more from surfaces and COVID is airborne
So, the “science” regarding COVID we’ve been force fed over the last 8 months that says we should incessantly wash our hands and hoard gallons of hand sanitizer to avoid transmission and certain death is false, which they were telling us to do when they were also telling us masks don’t work and “just wash your hands!”
The flu and COVID are respiratory viruses. Both are transmitted in the same manner and both have the same symptoms/outcomes. One is more deadly right now because there is no vaccine. If we had no flu vaccine, it would wipe out hundreds of thousands in this country every year. The flu is not “less contagious” than COVID. Even with a vaccine it usually, in any normal year, kills 40,000 to 60,000 in the U.S. alone... every year. For decades now.
Do you fricking assholes arguing that shite not think for yourselves? Or do you just believe everything someone tells you and take it as absolute 100% truth without thinking critically, analyzing or questioning any of it?
fricking robots.
This post was edited on 12/27/20 at 10:42 am
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:38 am to Fusaichi Pegasus
quote:
Where did the regular flu go?
Did you regularly talk about it? I’d assume numbers reduced due to the bevy of precautions but beyond that, where do you think the flu should be before we answer where it went
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:42 am to Gris Gris
BS the end of Nov-March is Flu season.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:43 am to NoSaint
Should be spiking right about now, like it does every year. December through January and February especially, the flu is hitting hard. The height of flu season.
This post was edited on 12/27/20 at 10:47 am
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:44 am to Dixierebel
Yup. This is not a secret. Pretty well documented.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 10:45 am to NoSaint
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Did you regularly talk about it? I’d assume numbers reduced due to the bevy of precautions but beyond that, where do you think the flu should be before we answer where it went
Flu cases down 98% worldwide this year YoY? Start there.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 6:39 pm to TulaneLSU
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Many Americans suggest covid is a farce and not worth social behavioral changes. The other had taken it deathly serious.
Because it is a farce. If cancer had over a 99% survival rate, nobody would give a shite about getting cancer. This Covid nonsense needs to stop. Open all businesses back to 100%. No mask needed, no 6ft BS. If you're scared stay home. But people are already conditioned to do exactly what the govt tells them to do. If they said the vaccine has to be taken anally by a 2in turkey baster, people would still line up for it. fricking idiots.
Posted on 12/27/20 at 8:25 pm to Fusaichi Pegasus
Good question
Posted on 12/27/20 at 8:29 pm to Fusaichi Pegasus
Lady who works for me was diagnosed with flu last week.
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