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Yup, The problem with people's understanding of "the flu" is that "the flu" in the common usage is just generic #flu like symptoms. fever, aching, drowsiness, inflammation and sleepiness. You get over it in 1-3 days. #INFLUENZA on the other hand is a very nasty disease that can kill you. I know an adult man in maybe his 40s who died from it. Influenza can last up to 2 weeks and cause long term vascular issues like covid. #Covid side effects have finally come down to near influenza levels of both death and long time health risks. Yearly death rates of covid was 2.5x the flu in march and dropped to 2.3x in may. Long covid has dropped from 42% of all hospitalized in 2021 to 28% this year. Long flu in 2021 was at 30%. Comparing COVID to a super flu would have been useful if people actually knew just how dangerous influenza was and didn't confuse it with flu like symptoms. Its why people refuse to get the flu shot still to protect others because they will say "I got the flu shot and it gave the flu" no you got flu-like symptoms, just like we got flu like symptoms with the covid shot and that reaction protected you from the deadly flu and covid. The same people who refuse to get covid boosters will be the same people who refuse to get flu boosters. If everyone was vaxxed and boosted for both the numbers would be incredibly low for everyone. US science communication just sucks.
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •The current head of the CDC seems incredibly inept at that. I saw a couple interviews and was left with a very negative impression.
It is not her job to take political repercussions into account. She should just state the bare scientific facts, and let the people and politicians decide what to do with them.
Methinks she could have been Trump's pick...
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