An open post to my community.

The following post in no way represents the opinions, policies or strategies of my employer. Nor does it necessarily represent the opinions or feelings of my colleagues. —————————————- The US is currently experiencing quite a bad influenza season. Healthcare services and drug supplies are being stretched to the limit in the United States as the authorities warn this year’s flu season is severe. Official figures indicate that influenza is now “widespread” in 41 states, with high numbers of cases reported in New York, where state governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a public health emergency. Robert Glatter, an emergency doctor at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital, said the facility was opening extra work spaces to take care of the influx of patients. He said medics were almost as worried about the situation as they had been during the swine flu outbreak of H1N1 in 2009. The severity of this year’s flu is of particular concern, he said, adding many patients are elderly and suffer from severe aches, chills, cough, fevers, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. Healthcare Today. The situation has been compounded with simultaneous spikes in people presenting with pertussis and norovirus, and has placed significant extra demand on hospital wards, and in particular, their emergency departments. In Australia the influenza season is yet to hit. But looking at the US experience, we should be preparin...
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