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The problem with a new virus, is that you don't know if you are the unlucky ones with genetic issues in your immune system that makes you have the same fate as this young healthy person. Your genetic issues would not have been exposed until now due to the new nature of a virus/pathogen coming from the animal world and introduced into humans.
I so wish my cousin the pediatrician who doesn't take this disease seriously would understand this. Her entire family (all of her kids, her, her husband) currently have it...and she told me with a straight face that kids don't get it. While her kids have it.
She is not local, is out of state. The relationship is strained.
In the 2018-2019 Flu season, about 475 children under 18 died from Flu. Can't imagine what it was like before there was a vaccine.
Thankfully Covid deaths in children have been far more rare than Flu. Something to look on the bright side about.
So what? This is not the 2018-2019 flu season. The influenza virus never dies - it just moves from one part of the planet to the other. Due to covid restrictions and mask-wearing, the Southern Hemisphere (our Summer) has very few flu cases. Therefore, we have very few flu cases (since the influenza travels from the Southern to the Northern hemisphere during Oct-Nov).
The hospital has only 1/10 of the flu cases as last year. Basically, nobody cares about flu cases at this time, whether it's adults or children. We are not sectioning off entire areas in the hospital due to the flu. But COVID-19 makes us close more rooms every week. We test for both flu and COVID-19 in the ER.
AGAIN, you don't know if you are the unlucky ones with genetic issues in your immune system that makes you have the same fate as this young healthy person. Your genetic issues would not have been exposed until now due to the new nature of a virus/pathogen coming from the animal world and introduced into humans.
So what? This is not the 2018-2019 flu season. The influenza virus never dies - it just moves from one part of the planet to the other. Due to covid restrictions and mask-wearing, the Southern Hemisphere (our Summer) has very few flu cases. Therefore, we have very few flu cases (since the influenza travels from the Southern to the Northern hemisphere during Oct-Nov).
The hospital has only 1/10 of the flu cases as last year. Basically, nobody cares about flu cases at this time, whether it's adults or children. We are not sectioning off entire areas in the hospital due to the flu. But COVID-19 makes us close more rooms every week. We test for both flu and COVID-19 in the ER.
AGAIN, you don't know if you are the unlucky ones with genetic issues in your immune system that makes you have the same fate as this young healthy person. Your genetic issues would not have been exposed until now due to the new nature of a virus/pathogen coming from the animal world and introduced into humans.
Sorry for looking on the bright side. I can't imagine how bad this would be if it were affecting children like the Flu does. I'm thankful it doesn't.
Sorry for looking on the bright side. I can't imagine how bad this would be if it were affecting children like the Flu does. I'm thankful it doesn't.
Thanks for looking on the bright side, but it's hard to tell from your language if you are downplaying COVID-19 by comparing it to the flu.
Currently, it is Christmas-New Years, Hanukkah, etc holiday weeks and kids are not usually hospitalized during this time. But we currently have 16 children (under 18 y/o) hospitalized for a COVID-19 infection with symptoms. That is the highest of the entire year. We have ZERO kids hospitalized for the flu at this time.
But we currently have 16 children (under 18 y/o) hospitalized for a COVID-19 infection with symptoms. That is the highest of the entire year. We have ZERO kids hospitalized for the flu at this time.
I wonder if that's the new UK strain - I read that children may be more susceptible to that.
The hospital has only 1/10 of the flu cases as last year. Basically, nobody cares about flu cases at this time, whether it's adults or children. We are not sectioning off entire areas in the hospital due to the flu. But COVID-19 makes us close more rooms every week. We test for both flu and COVID-19 in the ER.
Found this article this morning, and I guess the low flu cases this year is another thing we can be extremely thankful for. Three years ago hospitals were in a very similar situation at this time of year with flu outbreaks. Thankfully this year flu seems to be very limited:
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