China Swamped With Respiratory Infections Ahead Of Lunar New Year Travel Rush

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China swamped with respiratory infections ahead of Lunar New Year travel rush​

Warning comes as social media users post footage of crowded emergency rooms with patients on drips.​

By Kitty Wang for RFA Mandarin
2025.01.08

Health officials in China are calling on people to wear masks and open the windows to help reduce a wave of respiratory infections that has left hospitals across the country swamped with patients ahead of the Lunar New Year travel rush.

“Influenza is peaking in our city, with influenza A (H1N1) as the main virus,” the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a recent statement warning people to take precautions ahead of the Jan. 29 Lunar New Year holiday, known as Spring Festival in mainland China.

The warning came as social media users posted video clips of crowded waiting rooms with masked parents cradling children and people on drips and lying on gurneys in corridors.

“This year’s influenza is pretty severe,” Douyin user @watchthistolearnaboutBeijing said in a video filmed from the Luhe Hospital in Beijing’s Tongzhou district on Jan. 6.

“The emergency rooms can’t see everyone, and are just handing out medicines or telling people to stay home.”

“H1N1 influenza in Shanghai is causing mayhem! The hospitals are overcrowded. Parents, please protect your children. Try to avoid crowded places!” one parent said in a video filmed at one of the city’s hospitals.

“I caught the influenza A virus which caused pneumonia, and my fever was so high that I was delirious, with a temperature of around 40C (104F),” another user said from the central province of Henan.

Doctors' warning as cases of HMPV virus ravaging China double in US

Experts have issued a stark warning over the HMPV virus bombarding Chinese hospitals as rates in the US have increased compared to this time last year, according to CDC data.

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https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/08/china-influenza-respiratory-disease-metapneumovirus/

 

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Worst still to come

Officials said the worst of the wave could still be to come.

“With the coming of the ... Spring Festival holidays, there will be more personal travel and visits to relatives and friends,” Beijing CDC said in a notice published by the Beijing News. “You should wear a mask correctly when taking public transportation or going to crowded and relatively closed places.”

“Open the windows for ventilation 2-3 times a day, each time for no less than 30 minutes, to keep the indoor air fresh,” said the notice, which came as the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a sharp increase in respiratory viral infections, including human metapneumovirus, in northern China starting last month.

“They said it was influenza A I think, but we thought it could be a variant of COVID-19,” Liu said.

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/08/china-influenza-respiratory-disease-metapneumovirus/

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

China swamped with respiratory infections ahead of Lunar New Year travel rush​

Warning comes as social media users post footage of crowded emergency rooms with patients on drips.​

By Kitty Wang for RFA Mandarin
2025.01.08

Health officials in China are calling on people to wear masks and open the windows to help reduce a wave of respiratory infections that has left hospitals across the country swamped with patients ahead of the Lunar New Year travel rush.

“Influenza is peaking in our city, with influenza A (H1N1) as the main virus,” the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a recent statement warning people to take precautions ahead of the Jan. 29 Lunar New Year holiday, known as Spring Festival in mainland China.

The warning came as social media users posted video clips of crowded waiting rooms with masked parents cradling children and people on drips and lying on gurneys in corridors.

“This year’s influenza is pretty severe,” Douyin user @watchthistolearnaboutBeijing said in a video filmed from the Luhe Hospital in Beijing’s Tongzhou district on Jan. 6.

“The emergency rooms can’t see everyone, and are just handing out medicines or telling people to stay home.”

“H1N1 influenza in Shanghai is causing mayhem! The hospitals are overcrowded. Parents, please protect your children. Try to avoid crowded places!” one parent said in a video filmed at one of the city’s hospitals.

“I caught the influenza A virus which caused pneumonia, and my fever was so high that I was delirious, with a temperature of around 40C (104F),” another user said from the central province of Henan.
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Doctors' warning as cases of HMPV virus ravaging China double in US

Experts have issued a stark warning over the HMPV virus bombarding Chinese hospitals as rates in the US have increased compared to this time last year, according to CDC data.

www.dailymail.co.uk

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/08/china-influenza-respiratory-disease-metapneumovirus/

Maybe we can try not to let a half a million of the infected f****** fly into the country...

 

[theHawk]

Worst still to come

Officials said the worst of the wave could still be to come.

“With the coming of the ... Spring Festival holidays, there will be more personal travel and visits to relatives and friends,” Beijing CDC said in a notice published by the Beijing News. “You should wear a mask correctly when taking public transportation or going to crowded and relatively closed places.”

“Open the windows for ventilation 2-3 times a day, each time for no less than 30 minutes, to keep the indoor air fresh,” said the notice, which came as the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a sharp increase in respiratory viral infections, including human metapneumovirus, in northern China starting last month.

“They said it was influenza A I think, but we thought it could be a variant of COVID-19,” Liu said.

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/08/china-influenza-respiratory-disease-metapneumovirus/

What’s Biden doing to protect us?

 

[Pastelli]

At least this time , all agree on the origin of the virus

 

[Pastelli]

China swamped with respiratory infections ahead of Lunar New Year travel rush​

Warning comes as social media users post footage of crowded emergency rooms with patients on drips.​

By Kitty Wang for RFA Mandarin
2025.01.08

Health officials in China are calling on people to wear masks and open the windows to help reduce a wave of respiratory infections that has left hospitals across the country swamped with patients ahead of the Lunar New Year travel rush.

“Influenza is peaking in our city, with influenza A (H1N1) as the main virus,” the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a recent statement warning people to take precautions ahead of the Jan. 29 Lunar New Year holiday, known as Spring Festival in mainland China.

The warning came as social media users posted video clips of crowded waiting rooms with masked parents cradling children and people on drips and lying on gurneys in corridors.

“This year’s influenza is pretty severe,” Douyin user @watchthistolearnaboutBeijing said in a video filmed from the Luhe Hospital in Beijing’s Tongzhou district on Jan. 6.

“The emergency rooms can’t see everyone, and are just handing out medicines or telling people to stay home.”

“H1N1 influenza in Shanghai is causing mayhem! The hospitals are overcrowded. Parents, please protect your children. Try to avoid crowded places!” one parent said in a video filmed at one of the city’s hospitals.

“I caught the influenza A virus which caused pneumonia, and my fever was so high that I was delirious, with a temperature of around 40C (104F),” another user said from the central province of Henan.
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Doctors' warning as cases of HMPV virus ravaging China double in US

Experts have issued a stark warning over the HMPV virus bombarding Chinese hospitals as rates in the US have increased compared to this time last year, according to CDC data.

www.dailymail.co.uk

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/08/china-influenza-respiratory-disease-metapneumovirus/

So far, here, in the US it seems not widespread.

 

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So how many of the infected will arrive on flights from China into the US?

 

[postman]

So how many of the infected will arrive on flights from China into the US?

Biden is pushing to immunize as many American as possible from H1N1.

Vaccine manufacturers have projected that they will supply the United States with as many as 148 million doses of flu vaccine for 2024-2025.

all 2024-2025 US flu vaccines be three-component (trivalent) vaccines and include an influenza A(H1N1), an A(H3N2) and a B/ ...

Call it an ounce of prevention.

 

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Biden is pushing to immunize as many American as possible from H1N1.

Vaccine manufacturers have projected that they will supply the United States with as many as 148 million doses of flu vaccine for 2024-2025.

all 2024-2025 US flu vaccines be three-component (trivalent) vaccines and include an influenza A(H1N1), an A(H3N2) and a B/ ...

Call it an ounce of prevention.

Yeah, I've been getting a flu shot every year since 1974.

I got the flu two years running in '73/'74 right around Christmas Eve.....It kicked my young ass at the time.

I'm not bothered about going through it again but it's hard to tell what the Chi-Coms have unleashed on their population.....Better they stay over there till it burns through them.

 

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Yeah, I've been getting a flu shot every year since 1974.

I got the flu two years running in '73/'74 right around Christmas Eve.....It kicked my young ass at the time.

To quote from that era
"We've come a long way baby...."

 

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I'm not bothered about going through it again but it's hard to tell what the Chi-Coms have unleashed on their population.....Better they stay over there till it burns through them.

Trump tried the same thing with the white house and covid. Keeping it from getting into the white house.
It didn't work did it?

A better solution is vaccinations to protect the people.
But it comes at a time when the future head of HHS is against vaccinations.

Wise move?