LONG covid? COVID Pneumonia?

back to illnesses
well based on what we have here sounds like you guys have the same

The UK is rife with, flu, RSV, strep throat and the associated scarlet fever.
RSV was new to me, but its an upper respiratory infection, sinus ears nose thoat wet cough.... and everyone i know seems to have that. seemingly its cool to call it by its proper name this year, so the media are dropping RSV into every report... in a we know what this is, but you don't, kinda way.

Reported today that hospital admisssions in the UK for flu have now over taken covid for the first time since feb 2020 flu higher than normal, covid high but less impact.

16 kids under 6 years old have died from strep A complications which is awful news but would normally occur in feb march not in november december and not all i the same week...hence its suddenly news worthy

we now have shortages of kids penecillin based antibiotic that chalky bannana flavour stuff....

we had flu and mixed booster jabs for covid in septemeber, a lot of people are getting or have had covid but the impact is now way less than those getting flu


general analysis from the trustworthy end of the media
says:
1) we are in poorer health than we were due to sitting on our *** for 2 years
2) due to lock downs we did not have any waves of the usual winter bugs so none of us benefited from being infected, showing no sysmptoms, and recovering, like in normal years
3) cost of living and inftaltion has gone sky high thanks to the Russian Nutcase and his War, so people are not eating and heating appropriately for the 5*F to 35* F weather we have had for the last 2 weeks becaue they can't affrod it.
4) strep A wave is usually in the spring but this year due to it being 68*f regularly until end of october the wave has come early (strep A thinks its spring) and due to the above, namely unfit and lack of resistance, it has had an abrupt impact.

and as noted above, especially on those kids who have probably never been exposed to it before due to not going to play dates, nursery etc and the amount of home schooling for their first years, due to covid.

and or course Drs were not looking, parents were not looking, for an inncouse sore throat in november turning into a full bacterial invasion, its the wrong season.... and they would normally not have to worry, the kid would have had resistance
..... well they are looking now!

so if your kids get a sore throat followed by a tongue that looks like a strawberry and a sandpaper like rash on the skin they have strep A induced scarlet fever ... take them to see the doctor

given that we are nothern hemisphear and live roundly similar lives i'd expect the same stuff doing the rounds in the US, especially in the states where you see similar or more extreme winters , if the term flu season is something familiar then thats the kinda place where i mean.


Dave