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Worst flu Season on Record, Australia (emphasis in original):
According to statistics, the 2019 flu season is Australia's worst in recorded history with over 257,359 confirmed cases so far this year.
This record beat the previous one in 2017 with a total number of 251,163 influenza cases. Meanwhile, only 52,000 cases were confirmed in 2018.
"In terms of sheer numbers and the load on general practice and emergency departments, this is the worst flu season that's ever been," immunization expert Paul van Buynder said.
Local media has also reported 587 fatalities from influenza with a majority of elder people. On the contrary, only 73 died from the flu in 2018.
Australia capital Canberra confirmed 3,402 cases so far, which is worse than the total combined records from 2016 to 2018.
By point of comparison, the population of Australia is approximately 25 million people implying over 1.7% of the population came down with the flu.
Projecting from an estimated ~330 million people in the USA, that would mean over 5.7 million cases.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @04:54PM (2 children)
People are so fucking frail! Even the Aussies are falling down!
*cough* *cough* Oh my! Joe Biden touched my hair! This shit spreads over the internet.
Oh, And clean your fucking keyboards, you slobs!
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday September 07 2019, @11:05PM
Well yeah, 95% of all wildlife in Australia is designed to kill you, and now the germs have got into the act as well.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Sunday September 08 2019, @03:47AM
Most probably do stay home. So the number of confirmed cases is a lot smaller than the number of actual cases.