Keep in mind it's been a little while, but the rankings have changed a little and California is now on top.
Everyone knows my stance. This things is still out there and still as deadly and just traveling around. Now with many more variants. No doubt abuse of numbers IMO - due directly to the financial gain. Or numbers being off due to so many other types of deaths and the death certificate still pointing to covid. So it is being abused, but that doesn't change a whole lot other than to confuse the masses and scare more.
And I guess covid-19 might have a dual use and also then be injected to cure the flu? Of course that's bullshit, but odd that flu reports took such a dive since covid came around. This IS a conspiracy theory from me admittedly as I have nothing to run on other than major suspicion. Covid has apparently eaten up the flu. Article at bottom.
Are all of these numbers a result of the winter season coming in? Perhaps due to the new variants out there that came from other countries? All kinds of other countries reported about this new variant but didn't see many close up shop. Are numbers up - because this newer strain is reported to be 30% more deadly, and states it is 70% more contagious? How did it get here, and from where?
But also, this new strain was first detected in South England apparently and has made it's way to over 50 countries. That is worldwide failure. It's now referred to as the "Kent virus" from where it was discovered. But although folks have the freedom and right to go to jail for 10 years if they dare disobey the laws on covid, shop wasn't closed up. Now things are, and other countries did so or are doing so now. A little late ya think?
Still fighting over mandates here and many ignoring things & quarantines incoming and what not. Most countries also quarantining upon arrival.
Now a few vaccines are out but just how effective are they and how much so against this new variant and how will it do in the long run? Quite a few stories about folks getting the virus after the first shot and dying and now a few of the same after the 2nd shot. But as we know, some folks are a hell of a lot more compromised.
The only good news is that they are out and they are getting better at the speed of doing so. Last I heard they said that hopefully by end of April or March it may be available to anyone. Believe that when I see it.
27,616,922 US total cases
3,480,228 cases
California US
46,874 deaths +21,435
2,560,754 cases
Texas US
41,149 deaths +13,532
1,821,937 cases
Florida US
28,683 deaths +7,010
1,539,870 cases
New York US
45,807 deaths +7,828
1,160,523 cases
Illinois US
22,087 deaths +4,109
962,808 cases
Georgia US
15,850 deaths +4,916
795,323 cases
Arizona US
14,948 deaths +6,084
628,956 cases
Michigan US
16,119 deaths +3,101
555,895 cases
Massachusetts US
15,424 deaths +3,086
549,999 cases
Virginia US
7,012 deaths +1,980
83,003 cases
Delaware US
1,283 deaths +357
Has Covid killed off the flu? Experts pose the intriguing question as influenza cases nosedive by 98% across the globe
- Many feared 'twin-demic' of flu, which kills thousands, and Covid-19 this winter
- Thirty million people - 20 per cent more than normal - now eligible for the flu jab
- 'Surveillance' data collected by WHO shows how flu cases plummeted globally
It was feared by many to be the perfect winter storm, a nightmare situation that would push our health service over the edge: the 'twin-demic' of flu, which kills about 10,000 Britons every year, and a second deadly wave of Covid-19.
Such was the concern that the Government rolled out the biggest flu vaccination programme in British history.
Thirty million people – 20 per cent more than normal, and now including all over-50s – are eligible for this year's jab.
Take up of the vaccine is already the highest it has ever been in the over-65s and young children, according to the latest reports.
There's just one curious problem: flu, it seems, has all but vanished.
The disappearing act began as Covid-19 rolled in towards the end of our flu season in March. And just how swiftly rates have plummeted can be observed in 'surveillance' data collected by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Patients aren't routinely tested for flu, even if it's suspected, but a number of 'sentinel' GP surgeries and hospitals do carry out diagnostic screening on those who have symptoms, and this data gives us the most accurate picture of how much flu is in circulation.
And the figures provide a startling insight into what has become a creeping trend across the world.
Rest - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...illed-flu.html
Reply With Quote