Originally Posted by
Matt James
Interesting. I can say, anecdotally, that there have been a couple of waves of a particularly nasty respiratory crud here in Minnesota in the last 3 months--not flu, but might as well have been. Lots of missed school, plus about half of my 75 person office was either out or working sick. My family got it, although the kids fared the worst.
There has not been an uptick in unexplained viral pneumonias though, which was what tipped off the Chinese that they were dealing with something unusual. In our case, my youngest had a negative chest xray.