Lose My Breath Posted May 2, 2022 Posted May 2, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, frenchyisback said: Do y’all accept seniors & immuno-compromised in that ICU because according to the WHO between 350,000 to 700,000 people die of flu every year. We definitely have flu deaths but they are very few and far between, but that poster said cold, which is usually caused by a rhinovirus, or other coronaviruses, which hardly ever become critically ill or even require hospitalization at all. Also, flu deaths in the US are much, much lower than the WW estimate, so the influence covid had on hospital systems here was much greater than anything I have ever experienced with the flu. With 6,000 hospitals in the US, even during years of high flu death, that's an average of 8 deaths per hospital (obviously not all die in the hospital), on years with lower amounts of flu deaths (20k), that is an average of 3 deaths/hospital whereas during covid's run, it averaged out to around 170 deaths/hospital. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html Edited May 2, 2022 by Lose My Breath
Jotham Posted May 3, 2022 Posted May 3, 2022 The way that this is probably an underestimate due to at-home tests...
Genius1111 Posted May 3, 2022 Author Posted May 3, 2022 Overall R for Taiwan is 2.26. In Penghu prefecture, it's 3.29 (small population though). The north of Taiwan is a lot more populated than the rest of the country (Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan and Keelung)
Genius1111 Posted May 5, 2022 Author Posted May 5, 2022 NZ is now at 962000 cases. Hard to believe that they are so close to 1M cases now.
Genius1111 Posted May 5, 2022 Author Posted May 5, 2022 The ones with 80+ and 90+% look quite iffy to me.
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