California Flu
Epidemic Running 300% Above 5-Year Average
by Chriss W. Street 7 Jan 2018newport beach
The State of California is reporting that the deadly
2017-2018 flu epidemic is running at 300 percent above average for the last
five years.
The California
Department of Public Health (DPH) reported that for the first
three months of the 2017-2018 flu season ending Dec. 30, there were 27 people
younger than age 65 that died. That was up spectacularly from the one who died
during the same period in 2016-2017.
California provides weekly public health epidemic
tracking through 68 enrolled “Sentinel Providers” (physicians, nurse
practitioners, and physician assistants) located in all 58 California counties.
All patients suffering a fever above 100° Fahrenheit and with a cough and/or
sore throat are laboratory
tested for influenza and pneumonia.
Of the 41,891 cases tested in California during the first
12 weeks of the 2017-2018 flu year, there were 7,306 that tested positive for
influenzas, or 17 percent. But the epidemic is exponentially accelerating. Of
the 4,891 cases tested in the flu year’s 12th week ending Dec. 30, there
were 2,002, or 41 percent, that tested positive for influenza.
The peak of the flu epidemic is not expected until the second week
in February. That means the number of weekly cases are expected to triple, and
the peak number of deaths could be substantially higher. Once the epidemic
peaks, the number of cases will slowly decline, but the epidemic will last
until about August.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
expects the 2017-2018 flu epidemic will be the most deadly since the
2009-2010 swine
flu epidemic, which killed 284,000 people worldwide and 657
Californians.
CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine for
everyone six months of age and older as the first and most important step in
protecting against this serious disease. Although millions of Californians
received a flu vaccination last fall, the broad number of flu variants mean
that only about 25 percent of the vaccinated are protected.
The most widely circulating flu strain, Type A,
subtype H3N2, is this year’s most dangerous. Despite vaccination
being a third as effective compared to prior years, and taking two weeks before
it is effective, the DPH website states it is “not too
late to get a vaccination.”
Let’s connect the dots:
Epidemic
Richard E. Besser
was an investigator for the Epidemic
Intelligence Service, an acting director, director of terrorism
preparedness & emergency response for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is the chief
medical editor for the ABC News, and
a director at Living Cities.
Note: Michele Norris
was a correspondent for
the ABC News, and is a founding director,
Race Card Project for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Human Rights Watch, the
International Rescue Committee, the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a
benefactor for the Human Rights Watch,
and is a friend of Michael Douglas.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), Living
Cities, and the CDC Foundation.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Amy Robbins
Towers was a board member for the CDC
Foundation, and is a director at the Human
Rights Watch.
Kati
Marton was a director at
the Human Rights Watch, the Bonn
bureau chief for the ABC News, and
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), the CDC
Foundation, and Living Cities.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Richard E. Besser
is a director at Living Cities, the
chief medical editor for the ABC News,
was an acting director, director of terrorism preparedness & emergency
response for the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), and an investigator for the Epidemic Intelligence Service.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), the CDC
Foundation, and Living Cities.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Kati
Marton is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, was a director at the Human Rights Watch, and the Bonn bureau chief for the ABC News.
Amy Robbins
Towers is a director at the Human
Rights Watch, and was a board member for the CDC Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC
Foundation, Aspen Institute (think
tank), and Living Cities.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
and a lawyer for Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for MedImmune,
LLC, and Sanofi.
Sanofi Pasteur
is a division of Sanofi.
Influenza Virus Vaccine for the 2017-2018 Season
Cumulative 2017/2018 Season
Lot Release Status (Updated 11/30/2017)
Flu vaccine lots that have been released by FDA and are
available for distribution by the manufacturers. For information on flu vaccine
distribution schedules, please contact the manufacturers directly.
FluMist Quadrivalent - 3
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Fluzone High Dose - 28
Sanofi Pasteur, Inc.
Sanofi Pasteur, Inc.
Fluzone Quadrivalent - 36
Sanofi Pasteur, Inc.
Sanofi Pasteur, Inc.
Mark B. McClellan
was a commissioner for the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
was a visiting fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a director at the ONE Campaign.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and is a director at the ONE Campaign.
Lawrence H. Summers
was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is a director
at the ONE Campaign, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Marie L. Knowles
is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is
a director at the McKesson Corporation.
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take advantage of the business benefits Henrico has to offer. On November 6, the
company announced that McKesson
Medical-Surgical – the division of McKesson
that specializes in medical-surgical products, technology and training – will
invest more than $10 million to expand its existing divisional headquarters
operation in Henrico. With this expansion will come 225 new jobs.
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Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Donald Kennedy was
a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Margaret A.
Hamburg was a commissioner for the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and a VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of CNN.
Walter Isaacson
was the chairman & CEO for the CNN,
is the president & CEO for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), Living
Cities, and the CDC Foundation.
Richard E. Besser
is a director at Living Cities, the
chief medical editor for the ABC News,
was an acting director, director of terrorism preparedness & emergency response
for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), and an investigator for the Epidemic Intelligence Service.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC
Foundation, Living Cities, and
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Michael K. Powell
was a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and is Colin L.
Powell’s son.
L.
John Doerr is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a director at the ONE Campaign.
Colin L. Powell is
Michael K. Powell’s father, an adviser
for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
and an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Brook
H. Byers is an adviser for Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a board member for the California Healthcare Institute.
Dana
Mead was a partner with Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, and is a director at the California Healthcare Institute.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
and a lawyer for Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for MedImmune,
LLC, and Sanofi.
Sanofi Pasteur
is a division of Sanofi.
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