Is the 2020 American flu true? The epidemic situation facing the United States today is different from the pneumonia virus infection in China, because their epidemic began in May last year. The United States has not paid attention to the outbreak of influenza for so long, and there are few media reports. It was once suspected that this was false news. Now that the situation is grim, the United States does not seem nervous.
According to media reports, the death rate of influenza in the United States is very high, and it is difficult to cure, because a large number of people have died in the United States, in addition to other complications caused by influenza infection. Poor dead man, his life stopped because of the flu. If you pay more attention, you may live for decades.
Some people predict that when the flu breaks out in the United States, the economic losses will be very large. The death toll has exceeded 10,000, so you can imagine the seriousness of the epidemic. But for economic losses, online rumors are more than 3 billion dollars, but there is no authoritative statistics, and the United States has not released relevant data.
What is the virus of influenza in the United States in 2020? Because there are currently 26 million people infected with influenza in the United States, and only 34 cases have been reported in COVID-19, it is said that the American influenza in 2020 cannot be identified as COVID-19. However, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said that COVID-19 might have an outbreak of virus in the United States, and their worst plan was to close shops and schools.
It should be noted that foreign media reported that the FBI has started to hoard hand sanitizers and protective masks, and the CDC will conduct COVID-19 tests on patients with influenza-like diseases in public health laboratories in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and new york, and plans to promote them nationwide.
In short, in 2022, the duration of influenza in the United States is too long, and whether influenza patients are infected with COVID-19 still needs to wait for the new information released by the CDC.
What do you think of the American flu? 6600 people in the United States have died of influenza this year. It sounds scary, but in fact, the statistical method is different. According to American statistics, there were 88,000 deaths in China in 2065, 438+08 (data source: The Lancet), but the statistics of the Ministry of Health of China are 153.
Because Europe and America count the cause of death according to the "fundamental cause of death", while China counts the cause of death according to the "direct cause of death".
For example, in the popular WeChat article "Middle-aged Beijing under the Flu", my father died of pneumonia due to the flu. According to statistics in the United States, he died of influenza, and according to statistics in China, he died of pneumonia.
Moreover, according to the data of The Lancet, 80% of people who died of influenza were over 60 years old. Because of poor immunity, these people often die of chronic diseases caused or triggered by influenza.
And from the mortality point of view, 6600 people died and130,000 people were infected, so the influenza mortality rate was 0.0508%. At present, the mortality rate of pneumonia in Wuhan has reached 2%(440 people were infected and 9 people died).
The common flu is like a typhoon of magnitude 7 every year, with little power, but it still hangs down old houses that have been in disrepair for a long time. However, SARS is still this pneumonia, and a typhoon of the order of 14 may not be able to hold on to the new house.
Related News According to CCTV and CDC, a COVID-19 patient diagnosed on February 26th local time has not left the United States recently, and has not had contact with any confirmed cases. According to the plan, this will be the first case of COVID-19's disease with undetermined etiology in the United States.
According to an official of the center, the patient is from northern California, and officials are currently tracking all the people who have had contact with the patient recently.