Let's Talk Flu - Cases, Hospitalizations, Deaths, Hot Spots, Vaccination, Reinfection, Treatment
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Influenza cases continue to increase at a growing rate with more cases this past week than we have seen since 1997! More than 25% of tests are returning positive. Hospitalizations are on the rise as well and deaths by some counts are 8 times higher than at similar times past years. Cases are increasing across the country with hot spots in the west, south, and southeast.
www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index....
www.vox.com/2022/12/6/2349494...
The flu vaccine is often considered good when it has anywhere from 40-60% effectiveness. This year the CDC is stating that the vaccine seems to cover most of the currently circulating influenza strains. We talk about the World Health Organization's decision on what to include in the vaccine this year with discussions on Influenza A and Influenza B strains and clades, quadrivalent and trivalent flu vaccines, and the current effectiveness compared to the flu strains circulating now.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/r...
www.who.int/news/item/25-02-2...
Treatment for flu is primarily supportive staying hydrated and monitoring symptoms. There are 4 anti-viral medications that can be used though. Most commonly Oseltamivir (tamiflu) is used. The other three include Zanamivir (Relenza), Peramivir (Rapivab), and Baloxivir (Xofluza). We discuss the evidence behind tamiflu and who should be taking it in what timeline.
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Video timeline:
Introduction: 0:00 - 2:22
Cases, Hot Spots, And Comparison To Previous Years: 2:23 - 10:06
Hospitalizations, Deaths, And Comparison To Previous Years: 10:07 - 17:27
Vaccine Effectiveness, Comparison To Previous Years, Components, Flu Strains: 17:28 - 26:22
Treatment And Anti-Virals: 26:23 - 31:45
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If you look up Australia’s 2022 flu season, it shot up early and plummeted early although it topped out at a high level. That’s likely the way it will play out here.
Here's hoping!
Fingers crossed for that!!
CDC flu report that came out today shows a small positive % decrease! Maybe we’ve peaked? Would be an early peak for sure!
Would love to see that peak like they did in Australia with an early peak and then drop in cases! Thanks for sharing!
I am suprised to hear normal flu still exist...
When I was looking at the deaths for covid, which is at a minimum 1400 per day in the USA, that adds up to half a million per year. That's a huge number compared to even the bad influenza years. The number of hospitalized and people who get chronic covid symptoms is multiples of that. Finally, the vaccine is free and my pharmacy does a swell job. I got it.
When I was at the pharmacy I got the influenza vaccine for several reasons: first, it is said to be a fairly good match, so that the efficacy is expected to be on the better side. Then, I thought of being sick with influenza. Not pleasant and something I want to avoid. Finally, the flu this year is spiking high and early. Risk is higher because of it, but also I haven't had a flu shot in probably 3 years or more.
Concerning the efficacy rate of the flu vaccine for this year, I saw one person on the channel European Respiratory Society in a recent video state that the rate looks to be 60% as far as a match for the right virus strains. The video title is "ERS Vision - 22 November, 2022 - Influenza vaccine in the COVID era".
In the USA the deaths have been running from about 400 to about 530 per day since May. As you say, still bad stuff.
I got both vaccinations at the same time about a week ago; I should have spaced them out at least a few days. Made me feel pretty run down for several days. Still beats either disease beating on me.
"Medical news, views, and reviews." I like it too! Catchy. Although it misses the educational aspect, but I still like it.
Hoping the early flu A rise is simply earlier perhaps due to a little less herd immunity due to the isolation from Covid-19, and that it will level out to a level similar to previous years (or lower) rather than continuing to rise through Jan. Fingers crossed, time will tell...
Thanks for covering it!
Thanks Sheryl! And agreed on the educational aspect missing! And couldn’t agree more on the hope for early rise and early drop. Kind of like the Australian season this year. Always great to hear from you!
@@WhiteboardDoctor please, please, please start talking about proven effective treatments for the flu, &covid. I wish more drs. Would start telling us how to treat once we get infected. This is what we really need to know. Thanks doc great job keeping us informed as always.👍
What about stregthening the body to resist the flu? seems that is the first thing to do
Gargling and nose rinses with appropriate virus-killing ingredients could be effective as well.
There doesn't seem to be much to prevent infection when exposed.
Thanks for the discussion ❤
Always our pleasure Claire!
It seems like the eastern US is getting hit hard with the flu and the western US is getting hit hard with RSV. My household all got the flu (A) over the last 2 weeks on the east coast. My family and friends on the west coast are dealing with RSV, which has been much worse for them!
Interesting observation and thanks for sharing! We hope your household has sustained a full recovery!
There was not much flu during covid rage. Stay safe and be well everyone
Absolutely!
Limiting exposure to others made a real difference in both.
Question, what can be done for people who have problems with rapid tests not working? My family and I seem to always test negative on rapid tests until illnesses like flu and covid are too far advanced to treat. Was given Tamiflu once after being symptomatic with H1N1 for a week prior and it worked amazingly well. Within 8 hours of taking it, had a cycle of nausea and after that the flu symptoms started quickly going away. Hated the side effect but once it passed I was so much better. Most doctors won't prescribe it in my area, and I'm asthmatic.
I added glutathione reduced to my daily vitamins and for the first year did not go into bronchitis when i got sick. My asthma started 30 years ago. Some people take NAC but chris masterjohn phd told me about the glutathione.
Hi Dream- flccc states to treat it as covid to start. That is what we did. I don’t do the tests anymore.
Thank you.
Always our pleasure!
My work with kids revealed flu B had a super high fever 102. After Tylenol had to start. Motrin
Sorry to hear that! Hope everyone has recovered! Thanks for sharing
My friend and his son tested positive for the flu and were prescribed tamiflu. But they were unable to get any because all the pharmacies in our local area were out.
Stay away from It please research
As a 60 year old Asthmatic who as been prescribed Tamiflu on several occasions since it’s inception
I can say it has
Never worked
Only caused worse symptoms and introduced vomiting and diarrhea every time
Antivirals are a joke
And the effective therapeutic use window is so small the only way they could could have possibly released said window is to dose control groups at precise
times after infecting said groups with influenza
Those results could be very accurate but still very useless in a real world treatment environment
The only guaranteed result would be big Pharma $$$
And that all that really counts to these companies
Docs do what they can with what they got but we don’t really have anything for virus’s and that includes Covid
You dodged a bullet
Thanks for the info. I will definitely do some research
Our doctor said paxlovid not to be taken at all if you have had symptoms for more than 3 days time sensitive,
Makes sense.
The EPIC-HR trial showed it was very effective when taken up to 5 days post symptom onset. That was in unvaccinated patients. I'd postulate that in vaccinated and previously infected it would be effective to start it even later after symptom onset. This is because in a host with a primed immune system the symptoms show up much earlier during the infection process. Of course, the benefit of Paxlovid is lower in vaccinated and previously recovered patients. This was shown in the Epic-SR trial. However, it does still seem to be warranted in higher risk individuals regardless of base immune status. BTW, a recent study was just published in NEJM showing that outpatient Remdesivir is stronger against the new immune evasive subvariants (BQ.1.1 and XBB) compared to the Wuhan strain. Paxlovid showed a relatively minor reduction in potency against the new subvariants. The researchers concluded that both are likely still efficacious.
Something of interest: look into the covid19 mRNA vaccine IgG1 to IgG4 class switching and how it could effect our defenses against other corona viruses (IE the Flu) Thank you if you do.
Flu vaccine e are different than Cv19 vaccines. I separated MI e by several weeks.
You are smarter than I am. I got both Thursday and for the rest of the day and all Friday I was really dragging my butt around. Back to full strength now but I must have thought I was 65 again. Smarter people will give it a few days between vaccinations.
Which strain is more severe for the flu A or B?
My question too. I googled and I saw 2 different places that said each was more severe. 🤷♀️
As seasonal strains, I don’t think one is “worse” than the other. A key difference is that influenza A is said to have pandemic potential while influenza B doesn’t.
Broadly speaking, Influenza A may have more potential for severe disease. The infamous "Spanish flu" was type A. However, statistically the mortality is about the same for both.
Very clear explanations on this channel but I would prefer a face to go with the voice especially in this growing AI world lol
Can’t argue with that! We made the decision to remain the entity of whiteboard doctor for a number of reasons. Maybe that will change as time goes on though!
AI is still recognizable, for now at least. I totally understand and support the desire for offscreen in this world as well.
Has anyone looked at lockdown states vs non lockdown states?
As always thanks...no shock a big year worldwide after silly lockdowns.....
Thanks for commenting!
I think for 2 years we never cought flu & colds because all the lockdowns & restrictions & now we are back to normal we are catching colds & flus more nasty than usual because of our immunity waned, that's the collateral damage these Covid restrictions did.
We can only hope the trend doesn’t continue!
Absolutely!
Tamiflu made me hallucinate.
We're told that millions of lives have been saved by medical intervention, but we're never told how they did it; we just hear about what doesn't work.
For the longest time, the only recommended pharmaceutical therapy was remdesivir for 5 days as long as they were the right 5 days.
Any trial therapy must be compared not to no care but to a standard care. There is no standard of care for covid.
The medical community are changing recommendations as the virus variants evolve, but that doesn't mean there aren't standards of care. I know that various studies have taken the recommended standard for the variant as the control.
For an example, the latest update to recommendations is here www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/about-the-guidelines/whats-new/
Look at studies of vitamin D and influenza.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the overview - consider adding vitamin D to the preventive column (pre-exposure).
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231123/
Thanks for sharing Dave!