#flu

1. Fears NHS crisis could last all year as London 12-hour A&E waits rise 11% in a month

   By Daniel Keane The number of Londoners waiting more than 12 hours in A&E has jumped by 11 per cent in a month, the Standard can reveal, raising fears that the capital’s annual NHS winter crisis could become permanent. A total of 8,716 people had to wait more than 12 hours across t
   

2. Bird flu pushes US dairy farmers to ban visitors, chop trees

   By: Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dairy farmers in the United States are raising their defenses to try to contain the spread of bird flu: banning visitors, cutting down trees to discourage wild birds from landing, and disinfecting vehicles coming onto their land. North Carolina
   

3. Why does it seem everyone in the UK is ill at present? Covid and hay fever largely to blame

   By Lola Christina Alao and Tamara Davison Spring may have sprung but that doesn’t mean the seasonal sicknesses subside amid warmer weather. There are many coughs and sniffles around the capital as people deal with various ailments and routine respiratory illnesses. While it’s imposs
   

4. Routine Covid tests axed for hospital patients discharged into care homes

   By Lizzy Buchan Routine Covid tests for people being discharged from hospitals into care homes will be stopped from next week. In a written statement slipped out before the Easter break, Health Minister Maria Caulfield said that patients without Covid symptoms will no longer automa
   

5. This is incredible if it holds up. All the precautions that helped people avoid Covid-19 – including masking, staying at home and better ventilation – appear to have finished off the Yamagata strain of flu viruses. #Covid #flu #science

6. New mom's epic way of setting boundaries for people visiting her baby is already a hit among parents

   By Vidhya M. New mom's epic way of setting boundaries for people visiting her baby is already a hit among parents Among the myriads of responsibilities that new parents face, handling visitors who care the least to respect boundaries stresses them the most. Right from offering unso
   

7. “Early in the pandemic, public-health experts hoped that COVID’s tragedies would prompt a rethinking of all respiratory illnesses. The pandemic showed what mitigations could do: During the first year of the crisis, isolation, masking, distancing, and shutdowns brought flu transmi

8. This Is the Best Time to Get a Flu Shot

   By Alice Park Getting the flu shot any time during respiratory virus season is better than not getting it at all. But vaccine protection wanes, so timing the shot properly can help antibodies peak when cases are highest. Researchers wanted to figure out the optimal time for getting
   

9. ChatGPT goes 'crazy' and starts giving nonsensical answers to questions and threatens user

   By Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas & John O'sullivan The Artificial Intelligence robot ChatGPT started to give strange answers to questions , according to tech company OpenAI. Users on Reddit have shared some of the odd things the AI bot has been saying without being asked - like using a ra
   

10. Super (Bowl) flu set to hit 16m Americans

    By Steve Keating Businesses across the United States are bracing for an outbreak of ‘Super flu ’ next Monday when over 16m Americans are expected to phone in sick after watching the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs play for the Lombardi Trophy. A survey from UKG, a provide