Quote Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg View Post
Have you ever known anyone personally who died from the flu? I'm in my 50s and I never have. I know several who have died from this already and it's only been here 4 months. I heard about another one about an hour ago.
You're in your 50s and never known somebody to die with the flu? Seriously? If true, and Considering there are 45k a year, that should tell you how little we cover the flu vs covid.

The below was sent to me today. I can link the article that is referenced if you'd like.
Read an article this morning. All the below are quotes from the article, which also talked about hospitals turning away patients bc overcrowded and sending ambulances to other hospitals or clinics. It is from January 2018 and the flu outbreak.

"Medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures, asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting family friends visits, and cancelling elective surgeries, to name a few."

"Our hospital is managing, but just barely."

"We are pretty much at capacity, and the volume is certainly different."

"I've been in practice 30 years, and it's been 15 or 20 years since I've seen an illness scenario like this."

In Alabama, "a state of emergency was declared in response to the epidemic." "UAB hospital cancelled elective surgeries to make more beds available to patients."

"In California, which has been hit particularly hard, several hospitals have set up large surge tents outside their emergency departments to accommodate and treat patients. Even then, emergency departments have standing-room only, and patients are being treated in hallways."

The article went on to describe similar situations in Pennsylvania, Chicago, and Missouri.