How the Flu Spreads Among Kids, and Other Links
How flu spreads among kids. Neat chart.
Winners have more testosterone than losers. At least in wrestling.
Least surprising study result of the new year: Kids with low self-control were more likely to later be dependent on drugs or alcohol, to have lower incomes, to be single parents and to have been convicted of a crime.
Back pain is the 9th most expensive hospital cost. 3.4 million emergency department visits – an average of 9,400 a day.
Patients want a diagnosis and a cure they can’t get from any other doctor. But 80% of the time the NIH can’t help them either.
The implication of that last item is clear: Don’t get a rare disease.
I don’t know what new thing I learned from the chart showing the spread of flu among kids. Botom line: it spreads. Right?
The interesting thing about how the flu spreads among classmates is that household members are an important vector. Notice there are few uninterupted chains where the flu spreads from kid to kid without a small “dot” connections that represents a member of the kid’s household. I always assumed the flu spread among kids who then brough it home. But it jumps back and forth from kids to members of the household; who spread to other household members (and kids)who then take it to school and pass it to other classmates.
We’re supposed to be surprised by the wrestling result?
I didn’t find the flu chart very informative.