niman wrote:
Tex wrote:
now this one says underlying conditions.
http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/319311Flu has arrived; seven confirmed cases in county
The flu has arrived in Lancaster County, with seven confirmed cases reported here.
Across the state, the flu already has caused two deaths and 11 hospitalizations. Almost 100 cases have been confirmed by testing, most of them scattered across a swath of eastern Pennsylvania and clustered in one western county.
Lancaster County ranks second in the state for the number of confirmed cases at this point in the flu season, behind only Allegheny County, which has 12.
Likely, there are many more cases both here and across the state than officially have been reported, since not everyone goes to the doctor when they fall ill and doctors don't test every case.
The flu already claimed the lives of a 28-year-old man and a 45-year-old man, both from Lehigh County. Both of the men died within the past two weeks and both had underlying health conditions.
Overall, 69 of the 97 confirmed cases in Pennsylvania have occurred in residents ages 49 and younger. Just 17 cases were in adults ages 65 or older.The Chief of Infectious Diseases at the hospital says they were both healthy prior to H1N1 infection, while sourceless media reports cite underlying conditions. SOP.
"Underlying conditions" is one of the most misleading "quotes" of the 2009 pandemic. When the public reads those words they automatically assume some serious health problems, when in reality, underlying conditons could be applied to ANYONE.
If you've ever recieved any medication for a seasonal allergy in your life............ THAT's an underlying condition.
If you are greater than Ten pounds overweight.... THAT's an underlying condition.
Anything you've ever gone to a doctor for (More than ONCE) Could be accurately labeled.... "An underlying conditon".
In 2009, Gout was acutally found to be "an underlying condition" of one of the first victims of this virus in America.
Anybody who is not in perfect health.... or of the "perfect weight" for their body type HAS an underlying conditon.
It's a Broad Spectrum negative term applied to H1N1 victims that unfairly paints a picture in the public's mind of somebody who was unhealthy to begin with. It makes it easy for people to do what they instinctively need to do.... explain to themselves why it Won't happen to them.
Nothing could've been further from the truth.
In my experience... it was the ones with TRUE underlying conditions....severe paralysis or severe underlying conditions who SURVIVED The virus. Because they were aggressively treated prophylactically.
It's the biggest lie of the year... (The Underlying conditions myth)
I've taken care of Chronic patients in this area for over twenty years. I Know two of the most severely incapacitated victims who Caught H1N1, and neither of them died.... even though one was on a ventilator for several weeks.
If anybody SHOULD have died according to the Media... it should've been those seriously compromised patients. But they survived...
Somebody isn't being completely honest.
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