Treading on the Footsteps of Respiratory Virology Giants
An act of remembrance
Over the course of our nearly 800 posts, we have tried to give credit where credit is due to those who dedicated their lives to investigating respiratory agents. We have done so for several reasons.
First, it is their due as an act of remembrance and respect for what they achieved, which is topical this week.
Second, we were struck by the crass ignorance demonstrated by some of our “colleagues”, the media, governments, and all those who pretended that influenza was the only agent and partially still do by introducing the concept of the big “three”: RSV, SARS-CoV-2 and influenza
Connecting the Dots
We have received many comments in the last few days, all of them adding something to the great puzzle of where all our money goes. We arbitrarily selected two comments on different posts that we think will give us some ideas of the cash's direction of travel and its value to the taxpayer.
and using the f-word “flu” to confuse and justify fleecing the public.
Why we shouldn't use the "F Word": the long read
The colloquial “Flu,” the “F Word”, is synonymous with an acute respiratory infection, sometimes merging and overlapping with influenza. It is an ill-defined and sloppy concept which creates confusion about the burden of respiratory illness in the world around us.
Of course, this distortion of microbiology and epidemiology has nothing to do with the fact that licensed products are only available for these three agents.
Never mind good old rhinoviruses, which are continuously circulating, and their numerous groups of colleagues, including adenovirus, parainfluenza, metapneumovirus, and so on, that accompa…
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