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> The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years. Well, ok. Little known fact, but on average around every 1

by roenxi 2y ago

> The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years. Well, ok. Little known fact, but on average around every 10 years the worst flu season in 10 years occurs. > About 44 percent of adults got flu shots this winter, the same as last winter. But coverage of children is way down, at about 45 percent this winter. It’s usually around 50 percent, according to CDC data. Typically we'd expect to be either above or below average. Is this an unusual level of variance? For an article that is mainly fact this one is remarkably uninformative. I suppose they do a little puff piece every flu season to remind people that we have flu seasons.

tzs 2y ago
> Well, ok. Little known fact, but on average around every 10 years the worst flu season in 10 years occurs And when one of those worst years comes around I like to know about it because I don't like getting the flu. For instance let's say I make a sandwich for lunch on a Saturday and notice I'm getting low on bread. I add bread to my shopping list and notice that I've got a few other things on there. In a normal year I'd probably go the grocery store after lunch. If I know its a bad time for the flu though I'd probably instead put that off until Monday morning. Saturday afternoon there are a lot of people in the store. Monday morning it is almost empty.
- roenxi 2y ago
  I doubt that strategy would have any detectable impact on whether you get the flu, or how bad your flu is when you do get it. A bad year and a normal year aren't different enough, let alone whether cases are likely to be transferred from random strangers while shopping, or if that visitation strategy actually helps [0]. There is still a roughly 90% chance you catch a flu case in a different year if you are destined to catch something this decade. [0] If I had the flu, I would be more likely to try and shop on days and times when there aren't many other people shopping.

by roenxi 2y ago

tzs 2y ago

> Well, ok. Little known fact, but on average around every 10 years the worst flu season in 10 years occurs And when one of those worst years comes around I like to know about it because I don't like getting the flu. For instance let's say I make a sandwich for lunch on a Saturday and notice I'm getting low on bread. I add bread to my shopping list and notice that I've got a few other things on there. In a normal year I'd probably go the grocery store after lunch. If I know its a bad time for the flu though I'd probably instead put that off until Monday morning. Saturday afternoon there are a lot of people in the store. Monday morning it is almost empty.

roenxi 2y ago
I doubt that strategy would have any detectable impact on whether you get the flu, or how bad your flu is when you do get it. A bad year and a normal year aren't different enough, let alone whether cases are likely to be transferred from random strangers while shopping, or if that visitation strategy actually helps [0]. There is still a roughly 90% chance you catch a flu case in a different year if you are destined to catch something this decade. [0] If I had the flu, I would be more likely to try and shop on days and times when there aren't many other people shopping.