Some sort of superbug is ripping through my factory on the far NW side right now. Out of 28 employees we have 9 that are at work today. All the others complaining of flu like symptoms but more severe. One 31 year old warehouse guy, great shape is in the emergency room having one of his lungs drained.

Are any of yall seeing this out in your area?

This is not local but our Ohio headquarters has ~ 2/3 of staff out with flu/flu like symptoms. all hit within a 3 days window.
yesterday the entire IT staff was unable to report for work. Fun times!

Multiple bugs ran through our kids school the last couple of weeks.

I'm just getting over whatever it is going around

the "flu" ran through my house last week. missed a couple days of school.

People playing outside in the snow and ice for two days during cold and flu season is probably attributable to or at least a contributing factor to an uptick in employees calling out sick.

It got me last week and one person at the office this week. I tested positive for Flu A. Apparently this years flu shot is only 33% effective.

That's what happens when you don't take your daily iwarmactin

I don't know if's more than usual for this time of year, but my mom had to go to the emergency room last night and they were working the phone trying to find a hospital with an open bed. They were not in Houston though; may not have been an issue in town but the smaller hospitals apparently have been packed.

I had it two weeks ago. Just the flu. 101 fever (not bad, but I'm the type that normally doesn't run a fever at all when I'm sick), cough, congestion. Just the normal flu crud.

Now it's going around the office pretty fast.

FarmerJohn said:

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It got me last week and one person at the office this week. I tested positive for Flu A. Apparently this years flu shot is only 33% effective.

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Hit me back in October, waaay worse than the Vid

It's nuts how the experts and doom seekers come out for stuff like mass illness, Houston winter storms and hurricanes.

Sometime in the near future, a psyc phd dork who will never be able to pay off his doctoral debt will defend a dissertation on online consumption and dissemination of fear porn in southeast Texas.

Mega Lops said:

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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/whats-new/2024-2025-flu-activity-vaccine.html

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So far this season, flu vaccination coverage is lower among children compared to the same time last season. As of December 7, 2024, 40.8% of children received a flu vaccine, which is lower than last season at this same time point (44.2%). Flu vaccination coverage among children has decreased overall since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Flu vaccination coverage is about 10.4 percentage points lower than during the same time in 2019-2020 (51.2%).

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