alot of these nikkas took the short bus home breh
Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic
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did you really read this one out aloud before typing and posting it? cause
did you really read this one out aloud before typing and posting it? cause
Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic
The public health measures that slow the spread of the novel coronavirus work really well on influenza
- By Katie Peek on April 29, 2021
Credit: Tolga Akmen Getty Images
Since the novel coronavirus began its global spread, influenza cases reported to the World Health Organization have dropped to minuscule levels. The reason, epidemiologists think, is that the public health measures taken to keep the coronavirus from spreading also stop the flu. Influenza viruses are transmitted in much the same way as SARS-CoV-2, but they are less effective at jumping from host to host.
As Scientific American reported last fall, the drop-off in flu numbers was both swift and universal. Since then, cases have stayed remarkably low. “There’s just no flu circulating,” says Greg Poland, who has studied the disease at the Mayo Clinic for decades. The U.S. saw about 600 deaths from influenza during the 2020-2021 flu season. In comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated there were roughly 22,000 deaths in the prior season and 34,000 two seasons ago.
Because each year’s flu vaccine is based on strains that have been circulating during the past year, it is unclear how next year’s vaccine will fare, should the typical patterns of the disease return. The WHO made its flu strain recommendations for vaccines in late February as usual, but they were based on far fewer cases than in a common year. At the same time, with fewer virus particles circulating in the world, there is less chance of an upcoming mutation, so it is possible the 2021–2022 vaccine will prove extra effective.
Public health experts are grateful for the reprieve. Some are also worried about a lost immune response, however. If influenza subsides for several years, today’s toddlers could miss a chance to have an early-age response imprinted on their immune system. That could be good or bad, depending on what strains circulate during the rest of their life. For now, future flu transmission remains a roll of the dice.
INFLUENZA CASES WORLDWIDE, BY REGION
The World Health Organization tracks influenza transmission in 18 zones. Three of those regions appear here. Only people who get tested for influenza like illnesses—typically about 5 percent of individuals who fall ill—are tallied.
Credit: Katie Peek; Source: FluNet/Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, World Health Organization (influenza rates)
So washing your hands and wearing masks actually work
So washing your hands and wearing masks actually work
You forgot about keeping most of the population at home and making people keep their distance when they do come out.
Dumb ass comments like this always get me
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I swore that I had seen every MJ highlight but never saw this one. Damn kid was nice.Flu passed the crown over to corona like
How do you transmit the flu
Explain it to me like I never heard of the flu
philmonroe
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Google your friend my chocolate covered cac
Bruh, I am convinced people have to die of shyt and respawn just so they can have perspective. Downside is by respawning, they might take that as a sign that they should not have been worried. It is lunacy.
Exactly
Shut your herb nerd ass up
whenever you conspiracy c*nts have to hit the “do the research “ trick it’s all bullshyt
The scary part is most of them not playing
They are just dumb. The one thing that throws me off the older I get is just how simply dumb and obtuse a lot of people are and how confidently stupid they are
when I was in high school back in 09 I caught the flu (probably H1N1 looking back) and man that was the most miserably sick I have ever been in my life, why people who tried to downplay COVID as flu looked even goofier, motherfukker have you ever had a bad case of the flu?