Many people recover from a bout of flu within a few days or a week. But every year, the virus still kills more than 36,000 people across the U.S. — many of the deaths so sudden that families are left reeling.
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Speaking for me alone - someone who *always* gets yearly flu shot - I’m hardly ever sick with influenza MORE than 2-3 days.
Even C19 (only 🦠 1X) kept me in bed for <96 hrs. Of course I self-quarantined a full wk afterwards, but acute symptoms lasted ~3.5 days. Full return of taste 👅 did take ~8mos!
Ah, it makes sense, now. If you don't help stop the fascist dictator, you get to write more editorials about scary things that are only gonna get worse, which, as everyone knows, is where the money is
Well it didn't work with COVID. Idiots still abound. Even Trusk recovered and was supposedly quite sick (and of course famously infected his Secret Service when he insisted on being driven around to show how "minor" it was).
This is one reason the CDC & all public health agencies should be operating at full force. Only when there are ongoing announcements of disease trends can people make fully informed decisions about their immunization status & their level of public engagement. Gutting these institutions will kill.
Those branches have been completely shut down. Did you get the memo ? Gone, done. The whole vaccin prevention group was destroyed by Kennedy and DOGE. Do Americans get how much trouble they are in. Measles is just gonna be a vacation compared to things to come.
Did you miss the words “should be”
in my post? I was involved in public health for over 15 years on the local/regional level where much of the ground work is done. Your condescension is noted.
It is a shame that there is not something simple like a mask and hand washing that can help. One of the 3 major strains of Influenza disappeared during the pandemic due mostly to masking mandates. GONE. So theses deaths are preventable!
Masks 😷 of any type cannot prevent viruses from entering. There is no covid-19. They just renamed the flu. Why do you think they stopped counting flu cases for 2 years. Covid is the Trojan Horse to usher in this Technocratic Communist Dictatorship.
Masks are petri dishes of expelled bacteria and carbon dioxide after only 15 minutes. Doctors only wear them to prevent spitting in a patients open wound & splash back. Read a fking medical journal before babbling.
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Even C19 (only 🦠 1X) kept me in bed for <96 hrs. Of course I self-quarantined a full wk afterwards, but acute symptoms lasted ~3.5 days. Full return of taste 👅 did take ~8mos!
in my post? I was involved in public health for over 15 years on the local/regional level where much of the ground work is done. Your condescension is noted.
Wait til next year, when there will be no flu shot.
I’m convinced it was the bird flu, which is circling amongst us despite our NIH and CDC failing to follow and investigate the outbreak.