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| The Flu has not gone away . I am just wondering if it's mutated , joining hands with Covid -Delta ? |
GET READY FOR THE GREAT CONFUSION ! Since the strain of influenza viruses are changing rapidly every year, it is important to know which one is spreading and how effective the vaccine is at combating these viruses. The review process for the vaccine compositions takes place in February, March, and April each year, so that the (1)>>World Health Organization can recommend which virus strains should be included in the vaccines for the next flu season , which usually starts in September of each year.With fall coming up , the crazy Delta mutated Covid virus surging . There is a BIG question . How about the Flu ? Last year the Flu vanished , all you heard was Covid -Covid - Covid !!!. I can't help but wonder whether these numbers are skewed by the covid response. (2)>>THE POSSIBILITY last year we were hit with large flu out break that was overlooked and reclassified as Covid by the CDC .The entire focus these days is on covid, so when somebody presents with flu-like symptoms and tests negative for covid, how often are these people pushed aside as "other" without additional testing to determine whether they have influenza or a rhinovirus?But the flu season—and the answers—never came. The CDC took a back seat to snooze . The flu virtually disappeared, with less than 2,000 lab-confirmed cases in the United States to date, but really there was no flu last year ? May be the flu was misdiagnosed as Covid -19 ? WHO KNOWS . Last year was crazy & so this year maybe worse . The CDC says: Flu viruses are constantly changing, so the vaccine composition is reviewed each year and updated as needed based on which influenza viruses are making people sick, the extent to which those viruses are spreading, and how well the previous season’s vaccine protects against those viruses. More than 100 national influenza centers in over 100 countries conduct year-round surveillance for influenza. This involves receiving and testing thousands of influenza virus samples from patients. OK here is a fighting possibility that the Flu virus will merge with the Covid virus , mutate ?
Covid - Delta merges with Influenza -A
The term double whammy should apply to this upcoming Flu season. It also going a a crazy few months ahead . First the Federal government under Biden can't get it's head straight . There is a frighting possibility that Influenza -A will "merge" with Covid -19 to a extent that it's going to be hard to tell which virus is which virus . (3)>>My BIG QUESTION HERE IS , is the "delta" variant the Flu virus ? some kind government stunt to get people the covid shot ? Over the past decades, the two most common assortments of Influenza A's that caused seasonal flu pandemics have been the various strains of H1N1 and H3N2 that have been circulating, mutating, mingling with other animal born influenza viruses, and spreading between humans. The crazy thing about this is how the Flu season is going to be swept under the rug as Covid Delta seems to be up ticking . (4)>>Talk about "gain of function ". Now we know what's been said on the news That appears to be true even as delta and other variants of concern spread, though future studies will further clarify how well vaccines stop variants.The flu mutates extremely quickly, so though they may be related to that strain, the current ones are likely still different enough to be infectious, and thats if any new strain doesn't pick up any unknown traits from avain/ other animal flus... that usually means bad news. With Covid , we might have a mutated strain that would be difficult to contain with a vaccine .I'd be interested to know how many people actually seek a flu test after getting their negative covid test result. As per Public Health policy , one may come out of isolation after they've received a negative covid test, have been fever free for 24 hours and have seen improvment in their symptoms over a 24 hour period. Most working adults arent going to schedule an appointment to get a flu test done after they've already been off work for x numbe of days, people see that negative result and improvment in their symptoms and get right back at it. GP's at this time arent going to have a symptomatic patient in their office to perform a flu test. If someone is sick enough to end up in the hospital with the flu yes they will be tested there, but the general population at large is not bring tested for flu.We test anyone and everyone who comes into the testing center for covid so we have those numbers. We're not going to have accurate numbers of flu cases as only the sickest of the sick who end up in hospital are being tested for flu, very few are tested at their GP's office. Hell, I've lost count of how many patients have told me their doctor prescribed them antibiotics for strep .... yet they weren't even swabbed for strep, let alone seen in person to be assesd, the doctor just assumed because the patient was negative and still had a sore throat.We have never in the past prior to covid tested for the flu at the same rate as we have tested for covid. At least 2 things are clear: Quicker and more widely available testing is needed to distinguish between COVID-19 and influenza, which have similar symptoms, at least at first, but require different treatments. On top of that, a severe influenza season—the result of more virulent strains, inadequate vaccination rates, or a combination of both—coupled with a COVID-19 pandemic that shows no signs of abating, could overwhelm already taxed emergency departments and intensive care units.
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Additional research article is provided here about a possible spillover between Covid-19 , and the Influenza virus provided by Nature web site https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-021-00473-1. A vary interesting article that should not be ignored by the CDC , or even the Media .
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(1)>>World Health Organization can recommend which virus strains should be included in the vaccines for the next flu season. There are two flu seasons per year and the review process takes place throughout the whole year, with recommendations on vaccine composition being issued in February (for the Northern hemisphere whose influenza season starts roughly in September of the same year) and September (for the southern hemisphere, with their influenza season starting too when it's winter there). It's in the WHO website. NOW get this, Novavax prepares to file for FDA emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 shot, the vaccine developer is already looking ahead to the possibility of combining coronavirus and flu protection.Novavax combined its investigational flu vaccine, NanoFlu, with the COVID-19 vaccine shot, NVX-CoV2373, and tested it in ferrets and hamsters. The shot produced antibodies against both viruses at levels comparable to what was seen with either component vaccine alone, the company[ see this here 👉 reported 👈] on the journal preprint site bioRxiv. Interesting to note there are pushes by Pfizar for booster shots , or 3rd shots . It's a clue that the vaccines only give limited immunity . Moderna is also testing a modified Covid-19 vaccine designed to better target a more contagious variant of the coronavirus. Moderna is testing whether giving people a third dose of its original vaccine provides protection against variants. It is working on a multivalent vaccine that would target multiple strains of the virus.Millions of people still contract influenza each year despite vaccination efforts. Flu shots were 39% effective against flu during the 2019 to 2020 season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2)>>THE POSSIBILITY last year we were hit with large flu out break that was overlooked and reclassified as Covid by the CDC .Researchers found that levels of the Covid-19 virus increased soon after symptoms first appeared, with higher amounts in the nose than in the throats, which is also more consistent with influenza than SARS. Of the 18 patients they examined, one had moderate levels in their nose and throat but no symptoms–people who are asymptomatic can still potentially spread the virus. It’s this combination of airborne transmissions and asymptomatic patients who shed the virus that makes this a particularly infectious disease. Last year according to the CDC there low cases of the flu . Now we should cation this report from the CDC👉https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm 👈 I would challenge that , yes most cases for Covid illness that was reported last year was the the regular flu virus . Many people who were sick with "mild covid symptoms " as reported had to have been THE FLU . Covid -19 the real SARS -COV is a deadly virus it can't give people "mild symptoms" that is utterly ridiculous . This had been one of the problems with the CDC own plat form of information to the public . (3)>>My BIG QUESTION HERE IS , is the "delta" variant the Flu virus ? It seems that the CDC is NOW "reclassifying" the Flu as the "delta"virus . SO WHY ? MY THEORY here is that the virus sort of fused with the flu virus . They way the rhinovirus is a hybrid virus that spills over into other viruses is no accident , more part of gain of function experimentation.Next, we turn to [ see 👉 an article ] noting that the characteristics of the COVID-19 disease has remarkable overlap with a hypothetical disease, dubbed “Disease X.” In 2018, the World Health Organization emphasized an alarming characteristic of “hypothetical” “Disease X” that appears to be shared with SARS-CoV‑2: the ability to rapidly morph from a mild to deadly disease. The sudden turn towards a deadly disease appears to be due, in part, to an overly aggressive immune response that ends up ravaging the lungs. As one expert points out, this is the same pattern seen in the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic. So the flu did not go away it's still there , but a bit more "mutated" variety 4)>>Talk about "gain of function ". A key factor spurring our suspicion concerning genetic-engineering of one or more variant of the Covid-19 virus concerns a 2015 Gain-of-Function experiment: “Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,(November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice. . . . The results demonstrate the ability of the SHC014 surface protein to bind and infect human cells, validating concerns that this virus—or other coronaviruses found in bat species—may be capable of making the leap to people without first evolving in an intermediate host, Nature reported. They also reignite a debate about whether that information justifies the risk of such work, known as gain-of-function research. ‘If the [new] virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,’ Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, told Nature. . . .”
