Guest wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:32 am
Is this what influenza looks like?
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/20 ... id-19-icu/
The article states:
"Yesterday was the worst day on her ward. Ever. Three COVID-19 patients died — two before 8 a.m.
They were 44, 50 and 64 years old."
"A woman begged Jen to save her husband, sobbing, “How do I tell our 6-year-old daughter, ‘Daddy’s not coming home?’ ""
"About 40 percent of the beds in those facilities now are filled with COVID-19 cases. On this day, near the end of August, BayCare’s hospitals have 1,164 cases — 462 more than during the peak in July 2020, before there was a vaccine.
Across the country — around the world — the same scenes are playing out. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed. Ambulances are being turned away. More people are dying each day: An average of 250, just in Florida.
The delta variant is spreading faster, striking harder, hitting younger people, even kids."
"Jen knows the 36-year-old woman has two young children, that she’s been holding on for two weeks, that yesterday she had respiratory failure and turned blue. “She’s going to need to be intubated,” the nurse says. The beginning of the end."
"He’s 50 years old — the same age as Jen."
"In Room 86: A 46-year-old man got so aggressive he had to be sedated."
"Almost 40 percent of the beds in BayCare’s 14 hospitals now are filled with COVID-19 cases. No other outbreak ever has accounted for that percentage of patients, according to spokeswoman Lisa Razler. By mid-August, there were so many infected people, the hospitals had to suspend elective surgeries."
"In Room 83, the family of a woman who has been in the ICU for 25 days has decided to take her off life support. She’s 56. A wife and mother.
Orderlies roll a new patient onto Jen’s ward. This woman is 54."
I vote that this is not a normal flu. There is something new and different happening with the Delta variant. The patients are sicker and younger. The ages are the most telling clue that something is different. It's not too often a 36 year old mother dies of flu. Yes, it can happen but it is rare, as are all the other ages stated in just one ICU on just one day.
The data does not include the Delta variant and these new deaths yet. So talking about data doesn't help.