The basic issue with influenza surveillance is that, JUST LIKE COVID-19, influenza can cause mild illness similar to a cold Most people who have an infection don't get tested!
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This raises a conundrum. We want to know how much influenza is around, but (based on research) only about 10-20% of people with infections get a test to see if it's influenza or something else
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Thus, we build complex surveillance systems that look at how many influenza cases are REPORTED (based on testing) and infer back to a reasonable estimate of how many actually occurred
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Of course, none of this is perfect, because it's tricky stuff, but if you actually read beyond the headlines all of that is explained in minute detail
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Cartoon guy sure has opinions doesn't he ?
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I too don't know things I refuse to learn.
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He knows people who have died from every cause imaginable?
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Oh this is painful to read.
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Is funny and dangerous, how people can jump to conspiracy stuff so easily, is like people r ignoring that are ignorants in so much things? Dunning Kruger?
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“More catchable” is not a term I learned in public health school but I “haven’t been around a long time”
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You’d think there would be a for-realsies scientific term for “more catchable,” wouldn’t ya.
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