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Boston declares public health emergency, flu cases up
Posted: Jan 9, 2013
tenfold over last year. Nationally, hospital beds in some areas filling up. Methinks it's time to stop procrastinating and go get that shot. If I still can. This was on the evening news.
I'm hoping the illness that hit most people at our Thanksgiving dinner was this flu. It was certainly an enthusiastic spreader, but the seminal sympton was an unusual weakness that everyone commented on; fever yes and going to the lungs, but no one had significant tummy problems.
Oh, well. Sounds like this is going to hit a lot of us. Try to stay well.
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My hospitals filled up on Monday - Happy MT Robin
[ In Reply To ..]I work in-house for a statewide healthcare system and there are 3 hospitals in this metro area. They had to close all 3 hospitals to outside transfers on Monday. There were 14 patients waiting for beds at the main hospital and 3 and the other hospital on this end of town and 2 at the one on the west side of town. I haven't worked here long enough to know if this has happened before or how often, but I know I'm seeing a boat load of reports with pneumonia and flu-like symptoms.
Ditto on my wishes for everyone to stay well.
Wow. What are the symptoms you're seeing? I'm - wondering if we had this flu over
[ In Reply To ..]Thanksgiving while visiting the Tampa-Sarasota area. Something hit 7 or 8 of 10 adults (!) and 1 of 2 small children who'd gathered from 4 states and Canada, and searching finds that cases of H3N2 were rising "after Thanksgiving." Started with fever, significant weakness, sore throat, congestion. Nobody seemed to have significant body aches but most had development of lung involvement after the first day or two. I didn't go to a doctor, and it took me a good 3 weeks to clear enough to finally stop wheezing.
Sounds just like what DH and I have. - grits
[ In Reply To ..]Fever, chills, body aches, chest congestion, general ook. It's responding to Tamiflu, but I wouldn't wish this on Vern Davenport.
Sorry to hear you're sick - Fanatical Hypocrite
[ In Reply To ..]They really need to hurry the DRACO broad spectrum antiviral through. They've tested it on 15 mammal species so far without serious side effects and as far I'm concerned next time I get the cold or flu they can make me the first human trial. It can cure the flu (probably all of 'em), the cold (maybe all of 'em) and even the heavy hitters like dengue, marburg and ebola (the previous treatments being fire, of course.) But because of bureaucratic red tape - and the possibility that you'll mutate like Jeff Goldblum in the Fly - they won't give it to us. Lab rats get all the cool drugs.
LOL about Vern Davenport. Still, if he does get it, then we can test DRACO on him first.
Get well soon!
Thanks :) - grits
[ In Reply To ..]and re: Vern/DRACO, I'm in :D
Sorry, grits. You must feel REALLY bad. :) - (How about Michelle Bachmann?) nm
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..... thinking ..... - grits
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