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Illustrative incident of why a wretched health care system is bad for your health.

We've got friends all over the US.  And all of them are reporting they have, or know people who have, a low level bronchial infection without a high fever. I've got it.  The GQofNM has it.  It lasts about 3 weeks, perhaps more.  It has to be costing the US economy billions of dollars in lost work time and lowered productivity.

And zippo on the CDC webpage.

My thesis is this "pandemic" is flying under the radar because the CDC depends on disease data collection from doctors.  For that, people have to go to doctors.  Since nobody we know - nor us - can afford to go to the doctor for a low-grade illness ... it's not getting into the information collection system.  Thus, it's Not Happening.

by ATinNM on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 06:22:42 PM EST


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 08:40:21 PM EST
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Oh, we heard about something like that here in Japan.  Mycoplasma, maybe.  I think I had something like it, but I often get something like that.
by Zwackus on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 01:59:22 AM EST
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