这件事会英文的只要Google一下就知道了,下面是美国的一个网站的报道:
In today's FluView update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), experts say the flu season is in full swing with an estimated 4.6 million flu illnesses, 39,000 hospitalizations and 2,100 deaths from flu so far this season.
如果真要是发生了大规模传染病,这个世界上没有第二个国家能比中国控制的更好。
2017-2018年,美国有8万人死于流感!
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“ Vials of flu vaccine
Matt Rourke/AP
NEW YORK — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, revealed the total in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press.
Flu experts knew it was a very bad season, but at least one found size of the estimate surprising.
“That’s huge,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert. The tally was nearly twice as much as what health officials previously considered a bad year, he said.
In recent years, flu-related deaths have ranged from about 12,000 to — in the worst year — 56,000, according to the CDC.
Last fall and winter, the U.S. went through one of the most severe flu seasons in recent memory. It was driven by a kind of flu that tends to put more people in the hospital and cause more deaths, particularly among young children and the elderly.”
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至于美帝2019到2020年流感死亡人数的数据,可还没出来呢。因为流感季节远远没有结束!但到12月初为止,“As Many As 2,400 People in the U.S. Have Died From the Flu Since October, CDC Says”
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美国2018-2019年的流感季节,死了61000!
“As many as 61,000 people died from the flu during the 2018-19 season.
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2017-2018年,美国有8万人死于流感!
关于美国爆发致命流感造成6600人死亡这个新闻,很多人私信问我。实际上这不是一个新闻,而是美国疾病防控中心(CDC)官网上的一组Estimate(估计数字),官网链接在这里:https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm,CDC专门解释了关于死亡数据的来源和类别:
1. 类别,死亡的6600人,不仅是流感本身直接造成的死亡,而是Influenza-Associated Deaths,什么意思呢?CDC里面也解释了,就是与流感相关的所有死亡疾病都算在内,包括肺炎和其他一切当时或者事后发现流感是其中一个因素所造成的死亡,甚至这些死亡证书上并没有把流感作为死因列出的死亡案例,统统算在内,见图二截图有CDC的详细说明。
此外,CDC做了一个图表,见图三(截图自CDC官网),CDC链接:https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html, 图表说明,在所有流感与流感相关的死亡统计中,65岁以上的老人占了74.8%,不少是心血管疾病和其他老年疾病造成的死亡,只要诱发因素可能是一次感冒,都会被统计在内。
2. 死亡数字的来源是估值数(estimate),CDC明确说他们没有关于美国流感的确切死亡数字(截图二,CDC官网),因为根据联邦法律,各州并不需要向美国联邦CDC报告因流感与流感相关疾病死亡的人数。
所以CDC是根据各医院开具的死亡证书,把一切直接、间接与流感相关的死亡人数,通过一个模型计算出来的大约死亡人数,所以CDC称之为“Estimate”(估值)。
最后,美国每年都向低收老年人提供免费流感疫苗(Flu)注射,我妈妈不是低收,她老人家每年也都自费去打流感疫苗,因为老年人都会有这样那样的疾病,流感引发的发烧发热很容易造成其他并发症,从而引发严重后果。
关于流感的死亡大约就是这么回事,流感还是那几种流感,爆发期也就是每年圣诞节前一两个月,死亡率这几年略有上升,但也达不到让媒体惊爆的程度。
我不是与医疗相关专业,只是从一个普通美国民众的角度,从联邦CDC官网上读到的上述信息,有兴趣的朋友可以到美国CDC官网上自己详情了解下,相信还会有更多专业信息,CDC流感官网链接在这里:https://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm。
来自:Kevin在纽约