The 216 pediatric deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eclipse the 207 reported last year. It’s the most since the 2009-2010 H1N1 global flu pandemic.
It’s a startlingly high number, given that the flu season is still going on. The final pediatric death tally for the 2023-2024 flu season wasn’t counted until autumn.
“This number that we have now is almost certainly an undercount, and one that — when the season is declared over, and they compile all the data — it’s almost certain to go up,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but a big one is that fewer children are getting flu shots, added O’Leary, a University of Colorado pediatric infectious diseases specialist.
The republicans are winning so hard!!!
“This number that we have now is almost certainly an undercount, and one that — when the season is declared over, and they compile all the data — it’s almost certain to go up,”
Yeah doh, if you start doing all sciency stuff like compiling numbers then of course numbers will go up as you write them higher on the board! You’re not supposed to write down numbers, then things will look great again, dummies!
The best way to fight these grim statistics is to fire more CDC workers, the numbers will go down /s
Just wait till another pandemic happens. That’s when shits really gonna pop off
Withdrawing from the WHO was such a great idea. Who needs to share crucial disease data anyway?
