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I disagree, but it depends what you mean by "the flu". If you mean hospitalisations, then yes, you're entirely right. If you mean lost productivity and populati
by mdisraeli 13y ago
I disagree, but it depends what you mean by "the flu". If you mean hospitalisations, then yes, you're entirely right. If you mean lost productivity and population health outside of hospital, however, perhaps we need a better means to track this other than indirectly via either current stat.
- Fomite 13y agoThe CDC also uses a outpatient physician network to report cases of influenza-like illness in the community.
- mdisraeli 13y agoI didn't know that, thank you! I went digging to try and find exactly what figure Google were using, and exactly how CDC came up with it, but I couldn't manage to pin them down...