Confirmed flu cases drop for fourth straight week in 2013

Laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza have dropped for the fourth week in a row, according to a report published by the CDC (FluView: http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html).

Despite hard evidence of a declining flu season, CDC is still preaching the gospel of “flu is widespread” with the media playing along as willing lap dogs.  And, nearly every news story trumpets the benefits of flu treatments such as Tamliflu and Relenza, even though a review of clinical trials provides compelling reasons to doubt the efficacy of these treatments.

Also, news reports rarely mention hard numbers.  The public might become wary of the “flu is widespread” story if the number of laboratory confirmed cases were widely published.

However we will happily report them here:

Number of laboratory-confirmed cases for 2013 -

week     1              6287

week     2              6104

week     3              4427

week     4              2701

One wonders how long the CDC will be able to keep up this charade.