US Week 4 Pneumonia & Influenza Death Rate At 9.4%



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H1N1 Consulting Paradigm Shift Viral Evolution Intervention Monitoring Vaccine Screening Vaccine Development Expression Profiling Drug Discovery Custom Therapies Patents	Audio:Nov30 Dec20 Jan17 Jan24 twitter Commentary US Week 4 Pneumonia & Influenza Death Rate At 9.4% Recombinomics Commentary 23:30 January 31, 2013 The above graph from the CDC week 3 FluView shows the Pneumonia and Influenza Death Rate spiking to 9.8%. Tomorrow’s week 4 FluView will show a decline to 9.4%, which remains higher than any week since the 2003-04 season. The high level in week 4 is associated with high rates across the country. When the rate spiked to 8.3% in week 2, there were 16 cities which had 10 or more P&I deaths and a rate above 10%. In week 3 then number of cities meeting the same criteria reached 36. In week 4 the number of cities fell to 33, as seen in the list below. Tomorrow’s FluView will also add 8 more pediatric deaths, raising the total to 45, but 14 additional confirmed or probable cases have been reported in the media or state weekly reports. Regions PACIFIC 15.1% NEW ENGLAND 14.2% ES CENTRAL 11.1% EN CENTRAL 10.5% S ATLANTIC 10.4% Cities Worchester MA 21.6% Akron OH 19.0% Boston MA 18.7% Mobile AL 15.9% Evansville IN 15.5% Knoxville TN 15.1% Baltimore MD 14.9% Albuquerque NM 14.8% Tulsa OK 14.3% Long Beach CA 13.8% Omaha NE 13.6% Grand Rapids MI 13.5% Fresno CA 12.6% Birmingham AL 12.5% Cleveland OH 12.5% Memphis TN 12.3% Columbus OH 12.1% San Diego CA 11.9% Austin TX 11.8% Chattanooga TN 11.6% Los Angeles CA 11.5% Dayton OH 11.5% Sacramento CA 11.4% Atlanta GA 11.4% Fort Wayne IN 11.4% Charlotte NC 11.3% San Francisco CA 10.9% Des Moines IA 10.8% Milwaukee WI 10.6% Chicago IL 10.5% Washington DC 10.3% Seattle WA 10.3% Jacksonville FL 10.2% Media Link Recombinomics Presentations Recombinomics Publications Recombinomics Paper at Nature Precedings

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