Are you a 20-40 year old in the US right now? Did ya get a flu shot? No? Go get one. Right the fuck now.
We have had multiple otherwise healthy young adults hospitalized with severe influenza A infections. A few have died of complications. These were people who had zero risk factors. Get your flu shots folks!
@abbynormative we are not if they have typable flu. If we have a mystery virus, yes.
@Kathmandu @abbynormative it is, but on most of our tests in hospitals when they try to figure out which flu A someone has it isn’t a match — a so called non-typeable. I actually went down that road tonight with a patient. That said, not all labs type these out, so we could be missing many of them in theory.