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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Influenza mortality out pacing covid mortality
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/us-flu-reaches-high-severity-status-deaths-outpace-covid

The article indicates that 6 out of 11 pediatric deaths samples were 
subtyped (3 were H1N1 and 3 were H3N2).  H1N1 and H3N2 were included in 
both the trivalent and tetravalent flu vaccines.  The CDC is 
recommending that everyone over 6 months old get vaccinated.  The 
circulating strains are apparently more virulent than previous years. 
In the midwest test positivity rate is over 30% (I do not think that it 
ever got that high for covid testing).  97% of the samples were 
influenza A and only 3% influenza B (55.4% H1N1 and 44.6% H3N2).

Amazingly they picked the most common subtypes to include in the vaccine 
this year, but they do not have data on vaccine efficacy.

The dairy workers in states with infected dairy herds were supposed to 
have been vaccinated with the current vaccine in order to try to prevent 
recombination of a human strain with the dairy virus last year, but the 
CDC never published any results for that effort, and they would have 
missed all the dairy workers being infected in states that were not 
admitting to having infected herds.  It sounds like the current strains 
are bad enough without adding H5N1 genetics to them.

I do not think that the CDC would have been stupid enough to use the 
attenuated virus nasal vaccines to vaccinate the dairy workers (that 
would have probably insured reassortment among workers already infected 
with the dairy virus, but anything is possible with the current dairy 
epidemic fiasco.

Ron Okimoto