The flu is a bigger health risk than
novel coronavirus in the U.S., expert says
WGN-TV (Chicago),
by
Dina Bair
&
Katharin Czink
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
3/4/2020 10:02:57 AM
With all the fear and panic over COVID 19, some basic questions remain: how likely are you to get sick, should you be worried and how can you protect yourself?
Currently, there is no treatment for COVID 19 and there is no vaccine. But how does it compare to a major health problem we’re all familiar with, like the flu?
“People should not worry any more about this than the flu,” said Dr. Ernest Wang, Chief of Emergency Medicine at NorthShore University HealthSystem.
There’s a vaccine to fight the flu, but many Americans choose not to get it. They are nonchalant about a virus that kills on average 34,000 people in the U.S.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ming 3/4/2020 10:12:48 AM (No. 336546)
Soulless and brain dead dimocrats, which includes all of them, hardest hit.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GardenGal 3/4/2020 10:14:06 AM (No. 336551)
Why do they keep lying??? Flu death rate is less than 1%, WHO upped their estimate of the death rate to 3% yesterday. It has a much longer incubation period than flu, asymptomatic people are spreading it, some people are getting the virus, getting cured, then a few weeks getting a re-occurrence. Not only is the death rate higher, but the virus hits many more people very seriously so that serious complications are around 15-20%. These complications include needing to be on specialized breathing machines.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
msjena 3/4/2020 10:31:37 AM (No. 336573)
To me, the threat is the threat of forced isolation, not the virus itself. If I get the flu, I am not a pariah. Not so with the corona virus.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/4/2020 10:44:57 AM (No. 336597)
Agreed. But the simple name Flu isn't as sexy in the ratings game as the scary sounding, panic inducing, coronavirus that the media is busily hyping right now. The ignorance of history in the media regarding the Flu and how many people die is truly hard for most people to grasp.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Wendybird 3/4/2020 12:03:04 PM (No. 336665)
I see experts, even physicians, saying that the influenza vaccine is a treatment for flu symptoms, and to get a flu shot if you get flu symptoms. Of course, that is foolishness. The vaccine, although not reliably effective even to prevent flu, may decrease likelihood of a contracting it, or even reduce symptoms if you do. However, many people avoid getting it because of previous experience of having flu symptoms following, although the “experts” poo poo that, claiming that it rarely or never happens. I have spoken to way too many people with personal experience to really believe the “experts” on this. A vaccine works by stimulating your body to produce antibodies against the influenza virus should you be exposed. That benefit takes a few weeks to occur. Actual effectiveness in the geeneral population is as often as not disappointing, since the vaccine often doesn’t have the right antigens for the flu strain that predominates that season. Still, it probably makes sense to get the shot. The Flu kills people by causing an injury to lung tissue which is taken advantage of by a secondary bacterial infection, which is what kills peole, not the influenza virus itsself.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 3/4/2020 12:10:54 PM (No. 336679)
Yes, at this time this is obvious for those who see out facts.
According to CDC, 8,000 per month average deaths in the USA from common flu from Oct 2019 to Jan 2020.
Even China, if you believe their numbers, has not reached this one month total in several months.
Certainly numbers infected and more have big impact on these things, but the cold hard facts are that many, many more people have RECENTLY died of common flu in the USA than from this new virus.
That may change, and it could possibly change a LOT.. But until it actually does, RELAX, be sensible.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 3/4/2020 12:58:28 PM (No. 336729)
The mortality rate for corona may be 2% — but only for those who are actually sick enough to go and be seen and get tested. The vast majority are asymptotic or get malaise and flu-like symptoms and never get tested.
So the reality is that the mortality rate is actually very low. I fear the flu much more, especially for the infirm and immunocompromised.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 3/4/2020 3:25:54 PM (No. 336885)
#1 Critical difference = Carriers without symptoms.
It's the 'detail' that is critical to the effective weaponization of any bio-agent.
How does one avoid the un-detectable ?
Puzzle me that, Her Doktor.
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