December 31, 2024
“Only call 999 in emergences, urge ambulance chiefs amid 'worst ever' flu season.
Ambulance Chief Execs highlighted that their teams are ‘under severe pressure’ from seasonally high sickness rates, citing Covid, flu & norovirus as the main culprits.”
December 28, 2024
BREAKING:
Hospitals in China 🇨🇳 Overwhelmed as Severe "Flu" Outbreak, Including Influenza A and HMPV, Resembling 2020 COVID Surge.
Hospitals in China are overwhelmed as outbreaks of "influenza A" and "human metapneumovirus" resemble the COVID-19 surge from three years ago.
Mycoplasma pneumonia infections hit record high in Japan.
Cases confirmed at about 500 specified medical institutions across the country between Nov. 11 and 17 numbered 1,363.
“Less than 50% chance of survival Once Callie was admitted to the PICU at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, her doctors recommended Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), a heart-lung bypass machine to give Callie’s lungs a chance to heal.”
The reasons for the surge are unclear, Khan says. "I think that's the million-dollar question in terms of sort of why this peak now,"
“Any other NYC schools dealing with mycoplasma pneumoniae right now? 10 kids out on the same day in one class, 8 over two days in another (so far).
My friend’s daughter missed a whole week of school and has ‘never been this sick before.’”
“Reactivated TB is an AIDS-defining condition in people with HIV.
In HIV negative people, logic says TB has changed or people have changed.
Plenty of studies now point to the ways Covid damages the immune system, and we keep allowing ourselves to be convinced it’s “just a cold.”