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I was one of those affected. The official CDC numbers are underestimates, because they're only counting cases confirmed by culture. My doc asked enough questi
by timschmidt 22d ago
I was one of those affected. The official CDC numbers are underestimates, because they're only counting cases confirmed by culture. My doc asked enough questions to make sure it wasn't your typical stomach flu or food poisoning and got me the antibiotics ASAP which I appreciated. I assume I'm not counted as a result. I have to assume others aren't as well.
- wonnage 22d agoFurthermore the present CDC was gutted by an administration whose solution to Covid was to stop counting
- zimpenfish 22d agoAnd whose solution to "Is cyclospora a problem?" was to remove the monitoring and presumably stick their fingers in their ears.[0] [0] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitoring-parasite-cyclospora-12180951 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitorin...
- Fomite 22d agoThe FoodNet thing, while bad, has a bit of nuance in the system was not meant to do outbreak detection, so likely wouldn't have helped here. But it does cripple our ability to ask if this was a one-off, or if we're seeing long term trends that should be worrisome.
- mapontosevenths 22d agoIt would have made identifying the source trivial. Instead we had waves of confused and confusing reports.
- Fomite 22d agoThis. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, the number of people who will work their way into laboratory confirmed case reports is a small fraction of the total number of people impacted. You are almost certainly not reflected in those numbers.