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The WHO says there is no evidence that infections caused by subclade K produce symptoms that differ from or are more severe than those caused by other seasonal influenza viruses.
'Superflu', eh?
Very different from what I'm hearing from other sources, including people who have gotten the flu this year
Not sure what sources, I've seen nothing about anything different other than it's ability to evade vac protection.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but here's one.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-activity-continues-climb-us-11-million-cases/story?id=128891188
The percent of outpatient visits for respiratory illnesses are now at the highest rate on record.
About 8% of visits to a health care provider were labeled as flu-like illness, surpassing any levels seen since 1997, the earliest for which data is available.
Yes but that's because it's infecting more people not because it's more dangerous
Infecting more people in and of itself makes a flu virus more dangerous. Even if, statistically, it doesn't have a higher fatality rate, if the virus is able to more easily infect people then more will end up dead or hospitalized.
That's true
A lot of that is still states faking COVID infections as influenza.
Whatever makes people feel better, still the #5 cause of death.
Sources are only good if theyre not anecdotal. I wonder if op has those.
So i got the 'flu-like' illness because our doctors don't know what the fuck it is, other than that it's really nasty. It's been two weeks and I'm still recovering from it. It took out 12 of my staff, which is the most of any illness that's came through the area.
They say rates are low but it should still be taken very seriously. So if you show flu like symptoms but don't test for Flu, Covid, Strep, or any other common illness then strap in cause it's going to be a wild fucking ride.
ur doctors don’t know what the fuck it is
They would if the NIH and CDC were still funding good scientists.
I'd imagine many of us didn't go in, my wife and I both got it and it lasted a little over a week for the worst symptoms. Never got bad enough to warrant going to a dr tho.
It sent me through a dangerously high fever, extreme chills, super high heart rate, extreme fatigue, ungodly amaunt of congestion and coughing. I should've gone to the hospital cause i collapsed on the floor last monday unable to move for 6 hours but I really like not being in debt so I just waited.
That's crazy, glad you're okay, I never got a fever but was extremely congested, headaches constantly and never ending runny nose/cough/sneezing
It's a virus. Literally nothing a doctor can do. The time to see a doctor about a virus is for the vaccine 3 months ago.
It’s a virus. Literally nothing a doctor can do.
I'm not saying everyone that has a cold should go to the doctor, but there are antiviral drugs, and two specifically that are made to combat influenza infections.
Maybe don't speak authoritatively on a subject you're ignorant about.
Its definitely one of those things you're told growing up
For a cold, maybe, but Tamiflu has been a thing for decades. There absolutely is something the doctor can do depending on what virus it is.
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that influenza activity in North America remains relatively low but is increasing, driven mainly by detections of influenza A viruses.
I'm having a really hard time reconciling that quote with this one from yesterday.
The percent of outpatient visits for respiratory illnesses are now at the highest rate on record.
About 8% of visits to a health care provider were labeled as flu-like illness, surpassing any levels seen since 1997, the earliest for which data is available.
”remains relatively low” vs "highest rate on record" seem contradictory.
CDC has been compromised, no longer a serious source of information when the current government embraces denial with viral infections, as they did in 2019. Better of with Health Canada data, which is not good for flu:
One of them is confirmed flu, the other is flu-like. Likely it's that RFK has fucked the health admin/funding process enough that the corps don't want to release data that might get them punished and are side stepping it with what amounts to phrasing. At the same time, post covid, these corps are realising that suppressing the data or ignoring it till it got big brought in better money than being preventative.
What a time to be very immunocompromised.
Brainworm > super flu