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1. Two people have died and 18 others have been hospitalized after a "respiratory outbreak" at a Virginia retirement community, according to officials.
The Fairfax County Department of Health said that 54 individuals had become ill with "respiratory symptoms ranging from upper respiratory symptoms (cough) to pneumonia" in the last 11 days at Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield.
In a letter Wednesday to residents obtained by ABC News affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington D.C., Greenspring described symptoms as "fever, cough, body aches, wheezing, hoarseness and general weakness."
Benjamin Schwartz, a health department director, told ABC News on Thursday that the outbreak had been reported in the assisted-living and skilled-nursing sections. He said the outbreak began with the first case on June 30....
The assisted-living and skilled-nursing facility in Greenspring is home to 263 residents, Schwartz said. He said the two patients who died in the outbreak had been hospitalized with pneumonia but were "older individuals with complex medical problems."
"One of the things about skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities is [that] when you have a lot of people in close proximity, who have underlying medical conditions, there is an increased risk for outbreaks," he said. "Seeing a respiratory outbreak in a long-term care facility is not odd. ... One thing that's different about this outbreak is just that it's occurring in the summer when, usually, we don't have a lot of respiratory disease."....
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/respirato...community-54-residents-fall/story?id=64275865
2. The 2019-2020 flu season is up and running—and so far, it's off to a weird start.
Flu activity has been elevated since the start of November and is only expected to continue climbing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its latest flu update. That's a few weeks earlier than in past years.
Flu season in the United States can ramp up in the fall and peak anywhere between December and March, then drag itself out as late as May. In the last 36 years, flu most often ramped up in December and January and peaked in February. But for this winter, the CDC says there's a 40 percent chance the flu will peak in December based on activity so far....
Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/201...on-is-off-to-an-early-unusual-start-cdc-says/
3. In the latter half of 2019, there was a spate of mysterious illness across the US. The Trump administration just dismissed the mystery "respiratory outbreak" as a common flu or vaping lung illness outbreak.
Was the mystery lung illness across the US in 2019 a precursor to the global coronavirus pandemic? Did it have any link to the global coronavirus pandemic? Our honorable Dr. Fauci has to answer the questions.
One of the reasons why the US revives Trump's Wuhan lab-leak conspiracy theory is probably the US military is using it as a pretext to peep into the Chinese lab. The US wants others to be "transparent". First of all, it itself has to be "transparent" too. Exchange is no robbery. It may be good for both countries and the whole world if the US and China agree to let each other peep into their labs simultaneously.
Additional Reference:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/11/...unity-respiratory-illness-outbreak/index.html
https://www.insider.com/vaping-illness-outbreak-death-toll-2019-10
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html
https://www.newscientist.com/definition/coronavirus-come-lab/
The Fairfax County Department of Health said that 54 individuals had become ill with "respiratory symptoms ranging from upper respiratory symptoms (cough) to pneumonia" in the last 11 days at Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield.
In a letter Wednesday to residents obtained by ABC News affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington D.C., Greenspring described symptoms as "fever, cough, body aches, wheezing, hoarseness and general weakness."
Benjamin Schwartz, a health department director, told ABC News on Thursday that the outbreak had been reported in the assisted-living and skilled-nursing sections. He said the outbreak began with the first case on June 30....
The assisted-living and skilled-nursing facility in Greenspring is home to 263 residents, Schwartz said. He said the two patients who died in the outbreak had been hospitalized with pneumonia but were "older individuals with complex medical problems."
"One of the things about skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities is [that] when you have a lot of people in close proximity, who have underlying medical conditions, there is an increased risk for outbreaks," he said. "Seeing a respiratory outbreak in a long-term care facility is not odd. ... One thing that's different about this outbreak is just that it's occurring in the summer when, usually, we don't have a lot of respiratory disease."....
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/respirato...community-54-residents-fall/story?id=64275865
2. The 2019-2020 flu season is up and running—and so far, it's off to a weird start.
Flu activity has been elevated since the start of November and is only expected to continue climbing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its latest flu update. That's a few weeks earlier than in past years.
Flu season in the United States can ramp up in the fall and peak anywhere between December and March, then drag itself out as late as May. In the last 36 years, flu most often ramped up in December and January and peaked in February. But for this winter, the CDC says there's a 40 percent chance the flu will peak in December based on activity so far....
Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/201...on-is-off-to-an-early-unusual-start-cdc-says/
3. In the latter half of 2019, there was a spate of mysterious illness across the US. The Trump administration just dismissed the mystery "respiratory outbreak" as a common flu or vaping lung illness outbreak.
Was the mystery lung illness across the US in 2019 a precursor to the global coronavirus pandemic? Did it have any link to the global coronavirus pandemic? Our honorable Dr. Fauci has to answer the questions.
One of the reasons why the US revives Trump's Wuhan lab-leak conspiracy theory is probably the US military is using it as a pretext to peep into the Chinese lab. The US wants others to be "transparent". First of all, it itself has to be "transparent" too. Exchange is no robbery. It may be good for both countries and the whole world if the US and China agree to let each other peep into their labs simultaneously.
Additional Reference:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/11/...unity-respiratory-illness-outbreak/index.html
https://www.insider.com/vaping-illness-outbreak-death-toll-2019-10
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html
https://www.newscientist.com/definition/coronavirus-come-lab/
