Flu spike in the Heart of Carolina

[Tonka]

Source:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7946898

Flu spike in the Heart of Carolina
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Hospitals across the state are seeing a growing number of flu cases this year.

According to national reports, across America the 2011 flu season is the worst in two years...more from the source.

 

[cartski]

Re: Flu spike in the Heart of Carolina

The raw data that supported this article, which has quite an alarming tone, is here:

http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wtvd/docs/020811_Flu_Numbers.pdf

J.

 

[Missouriwatcher]

Re: Flu spike in the Heart of Carolina

Looking at current ISDS data:
North Carolina has reached an ILI peak equal to the ILI peak in Oct 2009.
Tulsa County, OK has surpassed the ILI peak reached in Oct 2009.
http://isds.cirg.washington.edu/distribute/ili.php

 

[cartski]

Re: Flu spike in the Heart of Carolina

Looking at current ISDS data:
North Carolina has reached an ILI peak equal to the ILI peak in Oct 2009.
Tulsa County, OK has surpassed the ILI peak reached in Oct 2009.
http://isds.cirg.washington.edu/distribute/ili.php

Similarly with North Carolina. But I didn't see any other spikes.

What is Ontario doing in there??? If the idea is to monitor spread based on the border crossings between the 2 countries, then a few more access points are relevant - BC., Winnipeg, Calgary, for example. And the regions should follow trade route patterns, not political boundaries.

But what a wonderful surveillance service! It takes a bit of work to figure out what you're looking at, especially the time frames, but the graphs soon come alive showing some remarkable comparisons. No one could every question that there was a pandemic in 2009, for example. The heat sink graphs are difficult, however. And the scales are not marked, nor the data standardized.

J.