Everyone in California seems to be sick with respiratory illness. Here's why
Everyone in California seems to be sick with respiratory illness. Here's why
COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases are all on the rise or at a high level in California and elsewhere.
It's the holidays and everyone is traveling. Get your clickbait headlines outta here.
"Everyone"
about 23% of people participating in a weekly text-message-based survey reported having a cough or shortness of breath for the week that ended Dec. 10
Do editors even exist anymore?
Yes, they are the ones writing the headlines. 99% of what gets published online as news is titled by someone who isn't the author. The goal of the editor is to sell the piece to the reader, not to speak truth or accuracy.
“Everyone seems to be”
It’s a figure of speech. It doesn’t actually mean everyone. It just means “a lot,” and a quarter of people surveyed is kind of a lot.
I mean… this isn’t surprising at this time of year. Many are traveling, in close proximity with one another and we have two holidays relatively close to one another (Thanksgiving and Christmas) that will have many people gather in one place, usually indoors.
It all provides a great environment for things to spread.
Not to mention the large amount of people who come into work sick at this time of year too.
Nationally, COVID-19 remains the primary cause of new respiratory hospitalizations and deaths, resulting in about 1,000 fatalities a week.
1000 deaths a week? This seems like it should be newsworthy no?
(note this only goes to Dec. 10-16th thus far).
I don't know. We know covid deaths will ramp up just like flu every season now. But relative to past spikes, 1,000 per week nationally is pretty low.
people wouldn't wear masks or 6ft distance when it was the death equivalent of 9/11 (~3000) every day for months
Only if it was it of the ordinary.
Compared to the ~25,000 weekly deaths in 2021? The world simply decided that it was tired of dealing with COVID restrictions, and that it wouldn’t be worth trying to eradicate it. So we just decided on what an acceptable number of deaths is, and don’t bother reporting on it unless it’s outside of that norm.
If you can capitalize, yes.
It's all over the place. Here in Texas, too. I'm fully vaccinated, and mask in public, but this has been a tough season for me, as I caught stuff from careless relatives.
everyone in California
about 23% of people participating in a weekly text-message-based survey reported having a cough or shortness of breath for the week that ended Dec. 10
The only thing wrong with me is this cough that I've had for more than a month and won't go away
Cancer do be like that.
I know a guy who went to get checked for a respirator as part of a hazardous workplace PPE and found out he had a probably benign 10cm mass in one lung. Never had symptoms until he moved from the southwest to the Midwest and developed a persistent unproductive cough.
Point is that if you have a persistent cough, it might be best to sign up for some medical debt so you know what season of America's Got Talent you will miss.
I had to miss out on a lot of family stuff because I came down with croup or something nasty that developed from rhinovirus/common cold.
Nearly 6 weeks later and I still have some coughing fits. I faired better than many though. Nasal irrigation, vitamins, and saltwater gargling probably helped.
Went in last wk in SF. NP said obscene levels of adults with strep, COVID, RSV, cold, flu, and frequent cases with 2 or more. Shit on the "clickbait headline" but my medical provider said it verbatim...
I’m visiting family in the middle plain states and lots of sick ppl here but it’s also just that time of year