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All of the flu surveillance numbers suggested a historically bad season this year, and there was a big peak in flu-like mortality in February. It's entirely pos
by timr 7y ago
All of the flu surveillance numbers suggested a historically bad season this year, and there was a big peak in flu-like mortality in February. It's entirely possible that we were mis-characterizing the data:
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
- ortusdux 7y agoThe data from that time period seems to coincide with positive influenza test results: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html
- pkaye 7y agoStanford did a study looking for Coronavirus cases in Jan and Feb in the Bay area. http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/testing-pooled-samples-to-track-early-spread-of-virus.html http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/testing-pooled... > The researchers found that the burden of COVID-19 in the Bay Area prior to mid-February was low. Only two of nearly 3,000 people with respiratory-disease symptoms who were tested in early 2020 at Stanford Health Care or affiliated clinics for common respiratory viruses were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
- timr 7y agoSure, but the bay area has very few detected infections, in general. It seems pretty obvious that we need to do the same experiment on samples from New York, Washington, Michigan, etc.