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SHIT!! tha PIGFLUISGONNAKILLUSALL!!!!!
We could demand that those who were freaking out in here and declaring a full on state of emergency, to come before us in this thread and admit their herd-like stupidity.
We shall not do so though, as we are above the din of the hooples.
Though part of me would like to go Swearengen on their pathetic, pinched little faces...
There is a greater statistical chance you will kill your own kids than they will die of swine flu.
My God...we're all not going to die....
U.S. WHO/NREVSS Collaborating Laboratories National Summary, 2009-10
I had the swine flu a month ago..it wasn't that bad. Mucho green/yellow mucus. Kinda colorfull. Drink all the liquids you can stand.. OJ and lotsa water....day and night nyquil.
My God...we're all not going to die....
U.S. WHO/NREVSS Collaborating Laboratories National Summary, 2009-10
I had the swine flu a month ago..it wasn't that bad. Mucho green/yellow mucus. Kinda colorfull. Drink all the liquids you can stand.. OJ and lotsa water....day and night nyquil.
So pretty much like the regular old flu.
Why were so many so afraid????
Stupidity??
I had the swine flu a month ago..it wasn't that bad. Mucho green/yellow mucus. Kinda colorfull. Drink all the liquids you can stand.. OJ and lotsa water....day and night nyquil.
So pretty much like the regular old flu.
Why were so many so afraid????
Stupidity??
I can't say it was without worry. I understand it gets bad fast. Most died of pneumonia. I just took a week off and laid around and slept.
So pretty much like the regular old flu.
Why were so many so afraid????
Stupidity??
I can't say it was without worry. I understand it gets bad fast. Most died of pneumonia. I just took a week off and laid around and slept.
It will be interesting to do a year-to-year comparison of I&P deaths to see if this year was statistically significant over previous years.
I don't believe it will be - the current rate if infection is dropping quite fast , as I predicted a couple of weeks ago. I can't take all the credit for that though as the medical professionals I spoke with at that time, including the head of the county health board, told me that all indications were that the swine flu was less virulent than the regular year to year flu. For the vast majority of the population symptoms were rather mild, and recovery was quick.
A small percentage of children - most with already existing medical conditions, were at an increased risk, but the overall population of American children were not. The actual numbers are bearing that out...
I can't say it was without worry. I understand it gets bad fast. Most died of pneumonia. I just took a week off and laid around and slept.
It will be interesting to do a year-to-year comparison of I&P deaths to see if this year was statistically significant over previous years.
I don't believe it will be - the current rate if infection is dropping quite fast , as I predicted a couple of weeks ago. I can't take all the credit for that though as the medical professionals I spoke with at that time, including the head of the county health board, told me that all indications were that the swine flu was less virulent than the regular year to year flu. For the vast majority of the population symptoms were rather mild, and recovery was quick.
A small percentage of children - most with already existing medical conditions, were at an increased risk, but the overall population of American children were not. The actual numbers are bearing that out...
They are already comparing the numbers, and the numbers exceed previous years infection, mortality, and morbidity rates, and you know it.
Year over year?
I have not seen that. I have seen blurbs regarding higher rates than normally seen for this time of year, but this flu season started earlier, and with the swine flu, is ending earlier as well. A similar process already occurred in the southern hemisphere, where overall mortality rates were minimal given the wild predictions - and that is with populations w/o any vaccine.
The larger danger this flu season is not the swine flu - it is the regular flu. There is now a shortage of "regular" flu vaccines - and the elderly, who are much more at risk of flu-related death than children were from the swine flu, could be compromised as a result.
Hopefully we do not have a sizeable outbreak of regular seasonal flu this year. If all we have to deal with is the swine flu this season, it will prove much easier on the population. (minus the fabricated hysteria of course...)
CDC H1N1 Flu | Situation UpdateNovember 13, 2009, 11:30 AM
During the week of November 1-7, 2009, a review of key indictors found that certain indicators declined, while others continued to rise. Overall, flu activity in the United Sates remained very high. Below is a summary of the most recent key indicators:
* Visits to doctors for influenza-like illness (ILI) nationally decreased this week over last week. This is the second week of national decreases in ILI after four consecutive weeks of sharp increases. (All regions but one showed declines in ILI. Region I (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI and VT) continues to show sharp increases in ILI activity. While ILI declined overall nationally, visits to doctors for influenza-like illness remain higher than what is seen during the peak of many regular flu seasons.
* Total influenza hospitalization rates for laboratory-confirmed flu continue to climb and remain higher than expected for this time of year. Hospitalization rates continue to be highest in younger populations with the highest hospitalization rate reported in children 0-4 years old.
* The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) based on the 122 Cities Report continues to increase and has been higher than what is expected for six weeks now. In addition, 35 flu-related pediatric deaths were reported this week: 26 of these deaths were associated with laboratory confirmed 2009 H1N1; eight were influenza A viruses, but were not subtyped; and one was an influenza B virus. Since April 2009, CDC has received reports of 156 laboratory-confirmed pediatric 2009 H1N1 deaths, one influenza B death, and another 23 pediatric deaths that were laboratory confirmed as influenza, but the flu virus subtype was not determined.
* Forty-six states are reporting widespread influenza activity at this time; a decline of two states over last week. They are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. This many reports of widespread activity at this time of year are unprecedented during seasonal flu.
* Almost all of the influenza viruses identified so far continue to be 2009 H1N1 influenza A viruses. These viruses remain similar to the virus chosen for the 2009 H1N1 vaccine, and remain susceptible to the antiviral drugs oseltamivir and zanamivir with rare exception
*All data are preliminary and may change as more reports are received.
"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
Looks like he was wrong on that one.
Number of Influenza-Associated Pediatric
"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
Looks like he was wrong on that one.
Number of Influenza-Associated Pediatric
Pediatric deaths dimwit. Sinatra is talking about TOTAL deaths.
Re-read Sinatra's post. Sinatra's source was proven wrong, as geauxtohell clearly stated. That's what happens when you cite a two-month-old article."It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
Looks like he was wrong on that one.
Number of Influenza-Associated Pediatric
Pediatric deaths dimwit. Sinatra is talking about TOTAL deaths.
This data was old when Sinatra cited it a month ago, yet here he is again, re-hashing the same old outdated BS.updated 9:55 a.m. PT, Wed., Sept . 16, 2009
Pediatric deaths dimwit. Sinatra is talking about TOTAL deaths.
Looks like reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.
Feel free to read the past few posts over to see where you fucked up in your logic, and then report back.
Or don't (and continue to look like a knucklehead). Your choice.
I'll even give you a nudge: figure out who "he" is and you'll see who "was wrong on that one".
Pediatric deaths dimwit. Sinatra is talking about TOTAL deaths.
Looks like reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.
Feel free to read the past few posts over to see where you fucked up in your logic, and then report back.
Or don't (and continue to look like a knucklehead). Your choice.
I'll even give you a nudge: figure out who "he" is and you'll see who "was wrong on that one".
The quoted article in post #50 states, "Seasonal flu is usually far worse among the elderly, who make up 90 percent of the deaths every year. In contrast, this flu is attacking younger adults and older children, but they are not dying of it at the same rate as the elderly, Lipsitch said."
Sinatra was talking about TOTAL deaths. You decide to key in on the young. Didn't bother to read the artcle did you? You took it out of context. It is your fail. 98% reading comprehension btw. Take Obama's advice eagleseven. Don't jump to conclusions.
"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
Pediatric deaths dimwit. Sinatra is talking about TOTAL deaths.
Looks like reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.
Feel free to read the past few posts over to see where you fucked up in your logic, and then report back.
Or don't (and continue to look like a knucklehead). Your choice.
I'll even give you a nudge: figure out who "he" is and you'll see who "was wrong on that one".
The quoted article in post #50 states, "Seasonal flu is usually far worse among the elderly, who make up 90 percent of the deaths every year. In contrast, this flu is attacking younger adults and older children, but they are not dying of it at the same rate as the elderly, Lipsitch said."
Sinatra was talking about TOTAL deaths. You decide to key in on the young. Didn't bother to read the artcle did you? You took it out of context. It is your fail. 98% reading comprehension btw. Take Obama's advice eagleseven. Don't jump to conclusions.
This is what Sinatra cited, and it is wrong:You took it out of context. It is your fail. 98% reading comprehension btw. Take Obama's advice eagleseven. Don't jump to conclusions.
Sinatra said:WASHINGTON - The death rate from the pandemic H1N1 swine flu is likely lower than earlier estimates, an expert in infectious diseases said on Wednesday.
New estimates suggest that the death rate compares to a moderate year of seasonal influenza, said Dr. Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University.
"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
"Barring any changes in the virus, I think we can say we are in a category 1 pandemic. This has not become clear until fairly recently."
The Pandemic Severity Index set by the U.S. government has five categories of pandemic, with a category 1 being comparable to a seasonal flu epidemic...