The worst flu season in 15 years has left hundreds of thousands of Americans hospitalized while straining physicians’ offices and emergency departments.
Why it matters: The virus is causing more severe complications and hitting young children especially hard.
"The two predominant strains that are circulating right now are known to be more severe and have more severe outcomes, especially in high-risk patients," said Carol McLay, president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
Turns out having multiple infections run around wild does not “strengthen” our immune system. Who would have thought /s
Wait, so mandating return to office in the middle of flu season has resulted in more people getting sick? Who could have seen that coming?
WHO indeed?
WHO doesn’t have a great track record on COVID either. They denied it was airborne for years even though we had sufficient evidence to say so in 2021.
Likely caved to pressure to not report on it.
STFU and get back to your cubicle. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
Nah it just makes us bitter, tough and stringy.
I’ve caught what I presume is the seasonal flu and it has absolutely put me on my ass. Blowing my nose every 5 minutes, coughing up phlegm, I’ve used so many tissues my trash bin is looking like I’m a teenager who just discovered pornhub. I think I’m past the worst of it, but I took a long weekend and bought a boatload of sick supplies like mucinex, sudafed, chicken noodle soup, and powerade anyhow just to be on the safe side. I’ve got a pretty strong immune system and basically never catch colds, so I feel pretty confident that regular folks that catch it are going to be absolutely demolished by it, possibly hospital time even.
Sorry to hear that. FYI this is unintuitive but “strong immune system” would mean you would have a worse reaction to the infection.
People often die just as much because their immune system overreacts to infections, than the infection directly killing them.
All that stuff, fever, coughing, phelm, is a consequence of your immune system fighting the infection. Not inherent to the infection itself.
(This is one of my pet peeves, sorry, a strong immune system is just as bad as a weak one, from your life experience it sounds like yours is perfectly balanced).
