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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.
I’m having a really hard time reconciling that quote with this one from yesterday.
”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.