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The percent of outpatient visits for respiratory illnesses are now at the highest rate on record.
About 8% of visits to a health care provider were labeled as flu-like illness, surpassing any levels seen since 1997, the earliest for which data is available.
Infecting more people in and of itself makes a flu virus more dangerous. Even if, statistically, it doesn’t have a higher fatality rate, if the virus is able to more easily infect people then more will end up dead or hospitalized.
Very different from what I’m hearing from other sources, including people who have gotten the flu this year
Not sure what sources, I’ve seen nothing about anything different other than it’s ability to evade vac protection.
I’m not the person you’re responding to, but here’s one.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-activity-continues-climb-us-11-million-cases/story?id=128891188
Yes but that’s because it’s infecting more people not because it’s more dangerous
Infecting more people in and of itself makes a flu virus more dangerous. Even if, statistically, it doesn’t have a higher fatality rate, if the virus is able to more easily infect people then more will end up dead or hospitalized.
That’s true
A lot of that is still states faking COVID infections as influenza.
Whatever makes people feel better, still the #5 cause of death.
Sources are only good if theyre not anecdotal. I wonder if op has those.