Wrote a short article today discussing the issue of annual flu-related deaths in China, citing data from an article published in The Lancet in 2019 that mentioned The annual number of influenza-related deaths is nearly 90,000. Many people feel that this is creating panic, because in 2018, official statistics reported a total of 768,000 influenza cases and 144 deaths. There are naturally differences caused by different statistical methods. You should remember the numbers of infections and deaths in the 2019-2020 flu season in the United States. At that time, the figures from the CDC in the United States had 20 million infections and nearly 20,000 deaths. The total number of flu-related deaths. Many people suspected that there must be patients with new coronary pneumonia, but in fact, they also die every year during the flu season, and the number of deaths was particularly high that year. In fact, you can check other people online. In terms of the number of deaths related to influenza in the country, the proportion of deaths reported by European and American countries is almost the same.
There is a natural difference between the number of deaths caused by influenza and the number of deaths related to influenza. The former has a tendency to significantly reduce the number, while the latter is suspected of enlarging the number. In practical clinical work, There are many viruses that are difficult to detect. In most cases, influenza infection will not detect nucleic acid like the new crown, so doctors cannot make a definite diagnosis when informing the patient’s family, saying that the patient’s severe clinical symptoms this time are influenza. Caused by influenza, because there is no specific medicine for severe pneumonia, just like the severe pneumonia caused by the new crown, it is mainly life support. At this stage of life support, it is the same whether it is caused by a virus, and doctors can use it. All of the above have to be used. Even if some patients are tested positive for influenza virus and eventually die, the first cause of death reported in the death certificate will basically not be filled with influenza. Therefore, in the national statistics, the number of deaths caused by influenza is Little.
Then some people say that those who died were already sick, but they just got the flu, how can it be blamed on the flu, everyone who has had the flu knows that it is not the common cold The symptoms are not mainly nasal congestion and runny nose, but high fever, muscle aches, fatigue and other symptoms. Strong people can’t move in bed, and those who have hypertension, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease should not have the flu. Some can live for a few years, but it is not a rare case to get the flu once. Everyone thinks that it should be counted on the flu?
Such a situation has led many people to have an inaccurate understanding of the flu, thinking that the flu can also kill people? This also causes many people to not understand why so many people in Europe and the United States have died in a mess. They are killed by gunshots and the flu every year. Not to mention the global epidemic, most of them do not think that there are many people who have died from the new crown in the United States. It just surpassed the number of people in the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed 670,000 people at that time, and now nearly 1 million people died, after all, the total population was not as large as it is now.
So Europeans and Americans call Omicron the “big flu”, which is indeed the “big flu” in their minds. It is indeed a bit bigger than the Spanish flu, but the flu in our hearts It’s a weak chicken, and it won’t kill anyone. The “big flu” in our minds will at most stay in bed for a little longer, with a higher fever and a little more runny nose. In fact, I’m not against letting go, but you have to be mentally prepared. Don’t let go and say you’ve been fooled. Old Mei really wants to fool us into lying flat like them, but maybe they think the title of “big flu” is quite good. Appropriate to describe Omicron.
Actually, the flu virus is quite scary. Think about the death toll reported by the media and the panic level of everyone when the “bird flu and swine flu” epidemics. Those are the “big flu”. You let go and spend time with them!