"The threat of pandemic flu the our number one health security concern. We know that it cannot be stopped at the border."
- Dr. Luciana Borio
2018
The day after this speech Trump ended the task force.
"The threat of pandemic flu the our number one health security concern. We know that it cannot be stopped at the border."
- Dr. Luciana Borio
2018
windwalker wrote:
this is a type of "flu"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that so far this season, there have been at least 15 million flu illnesses for the 2019-2020 season, 140,000 hospitalizations and 8,200 deaths in the U.S. The CDC reports there have been 54 reported flu-related pediatric deaths this season from Influenza B ...Jan 27, 2020
Kind of amazing when one thinks about it...its just the "flu".
Finny wrote:
Hate to nitpick, but it's not. Perhaps you mean 'it's just the common cold'. Influenza is not a corona virus.
COVID-19 and the flu are both contagious viruses that cause respiratory illness. While public health officials are still learning more about symptoms and severity of COVID-19 vs. the flu, the best way to prevent either illness is to take everyday precautions including frequent hand washing; refraining from touching your eyes, nose and mouth; and staying home if you are sick.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lost credibility over the ’76 swine flu affair, not only due to about 30 deaths from adverse vaccine reactions?
In ’76, two major networks gathered background on the initial story of an immunization programme in different ways, and that formed differences in attitude on each network that held throughout the entire year.
The network that talked to the political figures in Washington came to the conclusion that the immunization programme must have been a scientifically driven decision.
The network that talked on background to key experts within the CDC, who believed it was a case of “damned if we do, damned if we don’t”, concluded the decision must be political.
We are well beyond that today.
The federal agency shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected. The CDC test correctly identified COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But in all but a handful of state labs, it falsely flagged the presence of the other viruses in harmless samples.
As a result, until Wednesday the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration only allowed those state labs to use the test — a decision with potentially significant consequences. The lack of a reliable test prevented local officials from taking a crucial first step in coping with a possible outbreak — “surveillance testing” of hundreds of people in possible hotspots. Epidemiologists in other countries have used this sort of testing to track the spread of the disease before large numbers of people turn up at hospitals.
But because the CDC declared the virus a public health emergency, it triggered a set of federal rules that raises the bar for all tests, including those devised by local hospitals.
Trump says he trusts China’s Xi on coronavirus and the US has it ‘totally under control’
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Bay Area coronavirus updates: All bars and nightclubs must close in California
It’s impossible for any alcohol you drink to kill an ongoing sickness. If you’ve got a cold or virus, your bloodstream is affected. Now think back to the 60–80% range. Attempting to reach a blood alcohol content that high would kill you far before you reached it — 0.5% can be deadly. Not to mention, as Gizmodo reports, alcohol will dry out your throat and make it easier for abrasions to form. As a diuretic, alcohol makes it harder to stay hydrated, which is important when recovering from a sickness.
grzegorz wrote:Also a conservative government but they actually believe in science. No, "In a few weeks it'll all go away..."
We are laughing stock of the world.
Shortly afterwards, however, he declared a national emergency and announced an entry ban for Europeans (with no previous coordination or communication with the EU) - except for the British and Irish (for reasons of traditional solidarity), a decision he had to revise a little later.
yes you are right. its for many to not see that, that the USA is a union of states, something of what EU is too but not yet fully are. the EU president is for now just someone lurking in the shadows aspiring to come out in the light........Yes, "the flu" is also put in the shadows now because of this new corona virus. corona viruses are said to be much more difficult to handle than "regular" viruses because of its 'corona' which i suppose here mean a though shell like structure, difficult nut to crack ?? thats why it get so much attention.windwalker wrote:Trick wrote: i follow the swedish news and i try to understand what the swedish government are trying to do, perhaps they as grzegorz say the US governmet are all about wanting to be different and special and hope that it works. the swedish state virologist/epidemiologist saying someting as - quarantine meassures are outdated and not proven to be effective ?? as an quite strange example of "meassure"
Not about "trying " to be different ..The US is different from almost any other society in the world
To understand "why" the response from the US gov, is different one must first understand how the gov. is set up.
The states are essentially the governments who are responsible for their own people.
Each state will have different responses based on their governance.
Over the yrs the states have been abdicating their role in governance...
using the "fed" gov more, and more for things that they as a "state" should be addressing..
In some cases working against the fed gov in others working with...
this is a type of "flu"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that so far this season, there have been at least 15 million flu illnesses for the 2019-2020 season, 140,000 hospitalizations and 8,200 deaths in the U.S. The CDC reports there have been 54 reported flu-related pediatric deaths this season from Influenza B ...Jan 27, 2020
Kind of amazing when one thinks about it...its just the "flu".
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