The U.S. flu season is underway, with at least seven states reporting high levels of illnesses and cases rising in other parts of the country, health officials say.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new flu data on Friday, showing very high activity last week in Louisiana, and high activity in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico and South Carolina. It was also high in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory where health officials declared an influenza epidemic earlier this month.
“We’re off to the races,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University infectious diseases expert
Traditionally, the winter flu season ramps up in December or January. But it took off in October last year, and is making a November entrance this year.
Is that true? I’ve never heard that claim
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-31-covid-19-leading-cause-death-children-and-young-people-us
That is the most recent straight-from-source study I can find on the topic. Also published coincidentally right around the time governments started to refuse to collect data on Covid and declared Covid “over”.
So, I’d say if we were still collecting the data, we may be able to see if the trajectory has changed, but we aren’t, so we cant.
Also cant imagine that eliminating all Covid restrictions improved the figures.
So, is it true? 100% a year ago. I am inclined to believe it is still true, but I cannot say “100% that is true today.”
From the article:
Unless I’m reading that wrong covid was never the leading cause of death for people under 18.
Seems to be a thing that is ubiquitous here on lemmy. Someone posts a source that does not support their position, gets dozens of upvotes.
It was not even true a year ago, actually, unless you slice the data down to only look at deaths caused by infectious or respiratory diseases which, frankly, feels like a pretty obvious outcome for 2020-2022.
That’s fuckin wild, dude