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Pro tip - arguing medical stuff with an MD is not a great idea.
Pro tip- I would expect an MD to know this. If anything, doctors are making it a point to say YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FLU when patients insist they do. But, hey, you do you. I will listen to the friends and family that are docs since I know they are legit MDs.
Pro tip- I would expect an MD to know this. If anything, doctors are making it a point to say YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FLU when patients insist they do. But, hey, you do you. I will listen to the friends and family that are docs since I know they are legit MDs.
I agree with all of that.
Ask your doc. buddies to give you the dope on A(H5N1) and then describe the symptom differences most often seen via other type A flu - flus if your prefer.
The CDC does not list gastro distress as a common symptom of seasonal flu (A&B). The exceptions tend to be the one listed above and those who are extremely sick - like in the ER or ICU sick.
FWIIW my son is a doc., his wife is a doc., my daughter is in medical school and I know several others as well. Including the guy who fixed Tiger Woods knee.
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Like Hoonose wrote type - A is significantly respiratory in nature.
Life Insurance (a long call option) is going to change and become more expensive .
I don't think it will. It's based on data not fear, and covid deaths will ultimately have a statistically insignificant effect. We lose 3 million every year. We've lost 140K to covid with most of that coming in April when we didn't know how to treat it. I suspect there is a lot of overlap between that 140K and the 3M given that the vast majority of covid victims had multiple contributing factors.
Covid-19 Measures Have All but Wiped Out the Flu in the Southern Hemisphere
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From Argentina to South Africa to New Zealand, countries in the Southern Hemisphere are reporting far lower numbers of influenza and other seasonal respiratory viral infections this year. In some countries, influenza seems to have all but disappeared, a surprise silver lining that health experts attribute to measures to corral the coronavirus, like mask use and restrictions on air travel.
The decline isn’t just for flu, but for other respiratory viruses as well, such as respiratory syncytial virus, which largely affects children, and pneumococcal disease.
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Chile has recorded only 1,134 seasonal respiratory infections so far this year, compared with 20,949 during the same period last year. In the first two weeks of July the country reported no new confirmed influenza cases...
In the last two weeks of June, Australia registered only 85 new laboratory-confirmed influenza cases, compared with 22,047 confirmed cases for the two weeks through June 30 a year earlier, according to Australia’s National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System...
Maybe influenza has "all but disappeared" because it is being diagnosed as coronavirus to pad the number of "cases"?
Not common especially as we learn more and get more experience with the new virus.
By and large all patients presenting to ER's/hospitals will get tested for covid 19. And with most cases being respiratory they will also get Influenza testing. My collegues have seen some patients with both, but not common.
When has this not been true since the start of the industrial revolution? The economy is always in flux due to multiple causes, including wars, changes in political leadership, economic fads that go in and out of fashion, changes in demographics and so on.
The economy of the current decade is never the same as the decade prior, and it won't be the same in the decade to come.
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