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Coronavirus Overshadows a Deadly Flu Season
« on: March 21, 2020, 02:13:37 am »
U.S. News by By Steve Sternberg 3/20/2020

The flu has killed 22,000 people so far this year and the season isn’t over.

The global furor over the emerging coronavirus pandemic has masked one of the worst influenza seasons on record, government data show, particularly among children and young adults.

With flu season still winding down, at least 144 children younger than 18 have died, a toll topped only by the 2009 H1N1 pandemic since health authorities began tracking flu data in 2004.

So far this season, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 36 million flu cases in the U.S., with 370,000 hospitalizations and 22,000 deaths.

More: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-03-20/coronavirus-pandemic-overshadows-a-deadly-flu-season
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Re: Coronavirus Overshadows a Deadly Flu Season
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2020, 02:16:14 am »
Gee, I feel better all ready...we get to dodge two potentially fatal viruses and the corona virus season is just beginning.  Joy!
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Re: Coronavirus Overshadows a Deadly Flu Season
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2020, 06:55:15 am »
If we can hospitalize 370,000 for the flu... really... why does coronavirus pose such an overcrowding threat, unless it's the idea that it's happening all at once?
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