Number of people in hospital in England with flu jumps 41% in a week

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1. The number of people in hospital in England with flu has jumped 41% in a week and continues to be more than four times the number at this point last year, NHS figures show.

   An average of 2,629 flu patients were in beds in England each day last week, 2,504 in general or acute (G&A) beds and 125 in critical care.

2. Anecdotal, but I know a lot of people who are very sick right now with flu-like but worse symptoms, across different countries. Strange. Hope it’s not the beginning of something.

3. When you make it near impossible to even get through on the phone to a receptionist to book an appointment with no spaces for a flu jab, you are going to get more people with flu

4. Is this normal leap or helped by post Covid pure bloods refusing any bill gates nanobot containing vaccines?

5. I wonder if it’s anything to do with the tin hat people who don’t believe in vaccines or sanitising their hands?

6. I work on an ICU and caught it last week. It wasn’t the nicest, but I’m back at work now. It’s definitely doing the rounds, just like infectious diseases have for as long as humans have lived.

7. This is so stupid, I don’t get why the flu jab isn’t free for everyone. It must be cheaper than the hospitalisation cost. People should not have to pay for preventative care.

8. me, my wife, and our two kids have been caught by a pretty bad flu thing and are only just recovering. our daughter had a flu jab not too long ago and she only took a day to get better, but our son could barely wake up for like 3 days. it was over a weekend and we were just about to call the drs but he started getting better, and is in good spirits now. it’s the worst we’ve ever seen either of our kids and the most ill we’ve been that we can remember. definitely getting the jab for us all next year.

   41% jump is mad, hopefully this doesn’t get worse.

9. We are talking about two thousand people out of 70million, and it happens every year and will continue to happen with an aging population. I’m not rushing for extra loo roll just yet.

10. So many people (I think it’s an Americanism) these days use “I’ve got the flu” to mean **I have a cold**.

    “The Flu” is **Influenza** that virus that is completely distinct from a cold, or other illnesses, and can make you vomit and have diarrhea, give you hot and cold chills **COMBINED WITH** a runny nose, sore throat, muscle aches etc.

    “The Flu” is that thing that wiped out around 300,000 people in Spain in the early 1900’s. Not the thing that gives Sharon in accounts the sniffles.

11. My partner had to go into hospital on Monday due to her watch saying her heart rate was 150. Turns out she had flue and pneumonia, all the side rooms were taken up with flue patients

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13. Completely anecdotal but I work in a restaurant and the number of cancellations is WELL up this week compared to previous weeks

14. I’ve booked a flu jab for Monday, I hope it doesn’t make me feel rough over Christmas though from memory I only feel a bit off in the evening the same day. Mised the covid jabs at my doctor’s though (had an infusion for autoimmune conditions so couldn’t have an vaccinations for a couple of months.

15. Just coming out of three weeks of flu/covid or whatever the hell else it has mutated into.

    It just refuses to let go. Really nasty.

16. My friends mother just died from the flu, she went onto hospital for something else and caught it.

17. Remember to remind your parents to get the flu jab. They’d suffer most. I had to keep badgering mine because they were too lazy. My dad loves bringing home illnesses to us since he’s a teacher and I finally managed to convince him to get it over with this year.

18. Too many cunts happily spreading germs around. In the last couple of days I’ve seen people looking like shit and sneezing constantly on the bus, in the office etc. Stay at home fools, your not that important.

19. A few weeks ago I didn’t realize how ill I was until I started to get better. No recollection of phoning in to work, I apparently just rode it out in solitude for 5 days and came out of the other side completely confused. No one else who I’d been around before it started got ill. I just disappeared for a week and then it took a week to put myself back together. Never experienced anything like it.

20. In my area they don’t work weekends and everything closes by 4. I tried looking for a flu vaccine in October and the only time I can find an appointment is during work hours. Even with private clinics. And I would still need to book a month in advance which is incompatible with how unstructured my work time table can be. It’s wonder cases are going up. The UK just doesn’t give a shit about flu.

21. Even I’ve got a runny nose and a scratchy throat

    I’m somewhat fatigued but not nearly as bad as when I got COVID ( more than once)

    I’m on my 3rd hot toddy 2nd litre of orange juice and my 4th bog roll because my nose is running like the Niagara fucking falls 😭

    Thank fuck for Mary Jane and liquid morphine

22. I just had a horrendous vomiting bug that gave me myocarditis. I think if I’d caught flu as well it might have just finished me off. Shit was not fun.

23. The only time I think I had flu was 2 years ago and was brutal for 24 hours. Lying in bed with a pounding headache, body aches and hot/cold. Just lay there all night unable to sleep, in and out of knowing where I was. Day after felt ok.

24. I’m not surprised my wife works in an office and over the past few weeks people have been coming clearly unwell coughing and not wearing masks. Now everyone is off sick one with pneumonia. Most of them don’t believe in vaccines so basically she works with a bunch of idiots.

    This is in the NHS too

25. Anyone else get colds but in sequential stages? Like 2 days of feeling under the weather, 3 days of ravenous hunger and dizziness, 4 days of sinus infection, 2 days of a cough?

    It’s absolutely bizarre. Only noticed it since COVID 

26. I’ve had a nasty bug for near enough 2 weeks now, not to the point where I’m bed bound but I’m struggling to sleep properly and I wake up in the night genuinely breathing badly and needing to clear my throat.

    It seems to have COVIDs sticking power( unless it is just COVID again but I had that in October)

    I’m not surprised cases are rising because I’m not that unhealthy either

27. “Number of patients in hospital who have tested positive for flu” is NOT the same as “number of patients admitted to hospital due to flu. “

28. What weirds me out is why people aren’t wearing masks when they’re clearly ill lol.

29. Flu is no joke, I got flu last year and I was in bed for a week then it took 3 months for my body to recover from the fatigue and constant headaches.

30. I had a phlegmy chest cough for over a month, sometimes it was bad, sometimes ok. It’s still lingering on for a bit. During that time I was hit with what seemed like a pretty bad sinus infection. Thankfully that’s cleared up but feel like my lungs have taken a battering this past month.

31. Also, a lot of chest infections going around in London at the moment. The covid news seems to have dried-up completely, but surely that must be doing the rounds too right now?

32. I feel like I’m always feeling physically unwell lately. Most of the people I know seem sickly and down. Either winter is hitting us hard this year (despite being fairly mild) or the cold/flu are particularly strong.

    I could barely leave my bed last week, and even hot baths didn’t feel like they were warming me up. It feels like instead of a week, it’s taking 2-3 weeks to shake even mild illnesses off.

33. My friend’s baby has just been in hospital with some kind of flu… That’s crazy it’s going around like that

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