Deaths confirmed amid worst flu outbreak in a decade (www.stuff.co.nz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand

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This is the damning fact:

Epidemiologist Michael Baker told Stuff it was difficult to properly monitor influenza and other winter illnesses, because high-quality surveillance programmes were discontinued, including the Ministry of Health not renewing its contract for the FluTracking tool for cost-saving reasons.

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[-] absGeekNZ 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It seems that the math, maths quite well here.

Hospital stays are a big expense.

For context, 3 out of 5 of my family got the flu this year. One ended up in hospital for 2 nights.

Preventing 1000 hospital nights had to be worth quite a lot also.