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Flu circulating at 'sky-high' levels among kids, teens as experts brace for worsening wave of infections (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Further down in the article it mentions that the spike in infections is partly due to a flu type that wasn't targeted by this year's vaccine.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    In best matched years, the efficacy is about 60%, this year, it will be about 40%.

    The problem is all the lessons of hygeine and masking from 2020-2022 are gone, mostly driven by teachers who refuse to mask but have ALL been out >1 week with flu at my kid's high school.

    Ontario is cold Florida. We approach public health with denial now.

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    • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (27 children)

    Yawn. Vaccinate.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (17 children)

    Sadly, they did not get the vaccine right this year, and it doesn’t offer much protection.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    Says who? a fucking journalism grad at CBC?

    Even in worst matched seasons, there is protection. But, we encourage people to walk around sick without masks and not even wash their hands after going to the toilet any more. We used to teach hygiene in schools, we even had a U of T school of hygiene we shut down.

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  • [+] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    In what world? How about the real world?

    https://www.cdc.gov/clean-hands/data-research/facts-stats/index.html

    19% even "wash", but 1 in 20 properly wash.

    Historically, parents only vaccinate kids in Ontario at about 28% -you think these shit 72% parents are teaching how to properly wash hands?

    We shut down the School of Hygiene in 1975.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Why are you yelling at CBC journalists? They make this very clear in this very article:

    The latest available vaccine effectiveness estimates show the current shot is up to 75 per cent effective at preventing hospital visits in children aged two to 17 years, and 30 to 40 per cent effective in adults, said the WHO.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    The vaccine offers protection. That’s how vaccines work.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Only if they guess the correct strains for the year, which they have to do about 6 months in advance.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    ...Only if they guess the correct strains

    No guessing is involved. They base the Northern vax on the prevalent strains from the Southern hemisphere (and vice versa). Unfortunately a nasty varient started making the rounds shortly after the Northern vax was in production.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    If only there was data to predict it, and scientists who are qualified to make vaccines.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    What does that have to do with it? Doesn’t mean they are perfect and get it right every year.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (8 children)

    Health officials in Ottawa say three children have died this month from flu-related illness as cases surge in the region earlier than is typical.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    You can vaccinate children.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (3 children)

    You can vaccinate children.

    Ofc you can. I was responding to the snark from velindora, not saying that kids can't be vaxxed.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That is my username. What are you talking about?? I never said kids could not be vaccinated

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Not in hick Ontario.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    It’s a law that children cannot be vaccinated in Ontario?

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