Is the 2020 American Flu real? What is the 2020 American Flu virus?

Why has there been no reports on the 2020 US flu outbreak, or why has the whole world been paying attention to the COVID-19 in China? In fact, the US flu is not the COVID-19 virus. The US flu appeared before the COVID-19 outbreak, and the death toll was quite high, but it has not been reported. For details, please see the 2020 US flu event provided by this site.

Is the 2020 American Flu Real?

The epidemic situation that the United States is facing now is different from the pneumonia virus infection in my country, because their epidemic started in May last year. However, the United States has not paid attention to the influenza epidemic for so long, and there are few media reports. At one time, it was suspected that this was fake news. Now that the situation is serious, the United States does not seem to be nervous.

According to media reports, the flu outbreak in the United States has a very high mortality rate and is difficult to cure, causing a large number of deaths in the United States. In addition, some people have developed other complications due to the flu. It's a pity that the dead died because of the flu, and their lives were stopped. If they had taken it seriously, they might have lived for decades longer.

Some people predict that the economic losses caused by the flu outbreak in the United States will be very large. The death toll has exceeded 10,000, and you can imagine the severity of this epidemic. However, as for the economic losses, there are rumors online that the losses are more than 3 billion US dollars, but there are no statistical data from authoritative organizations, and the United States has not released relevant data.

What is the 2020 flu virus in the United States?

Since there are currently 26 million people infected with influenza in the United States, and only 34 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, the 2020 U.S. influenza cannot be identified as COVID-19. However, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also stated that the new coronavirus may become a pandemic in the United States, and their worst plan is to close stores and schools.

It should be noted that foreign media reported that the FBI has begun stockpiling hand sanitizers and protective masks, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will conduct coronavirus tests on patients with influenza-like illnesses in public health laboratories in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and New York City, and intends to promote it nationwide.

In summary, the flu in the United States in 2020 lasted too long, and whether flu patients are infected with COVID-19 still requires waiting for new information to be released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

How to view the flu in the United States

6,600 people died of influenza in the United States this year, which sounds scary, but in fact it is due to different statistical methods. For example, according to the US statistical method, 88,000 people died in China in 2018 (data source: The Lancet), but the data counted by the Chinese Ministry of Health is 153.

Because Europe and the United States calculate the cause of death based on the "underlying cause of death", while China calculates it based on the "direct cause of death".

For example, in the popular WeChat article "Middle-aged Beijingers in Flu", the father died of pneumonia caused by flu. According to US statistics, the father died of flu, but according to Chinese statistics, the father died of pneumonia.

And according to data from The Lancet, 80% of deaths from influenza are people over the age of 60. Because of their poor immunity, these people often die from chronic diseases caused or triggered by influenza.

And from the mortality point of view, 6,600 people died and 13 million people were infected, so the mortality rate of influenza is 0.0508%. The mortality rate of the pneumonia in Wuhan is currently 2% (440 people were infected and 9 died).

Common flu is like a Category 7 typhoon that occurs every year, which is also less powerful, but can still knock down old houses that have been in disrepair for a long time. However, SARS or the current pneumonia are Category 14 typhoons, and even new houses may not be able to survive if they are hit.

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According to CCTV, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that a patient with new coronavirus pneumonia who was diagnosed on February 26 local time had not left the United States recently and had no contact with any confirmed cases. He is expected to be the first patient with new coronavirus pneumonia in the United States whose source of the disease cannot be determined.

According to an official from the center, the patient is from Northern California, and officials are currently tracking all people the patient has had recent contact with.