David Mitchell :CApride:So… Edmonton is experiencing a mid-summer influenza outbreak?
That’s… surprising.
EDIT: thanks to Amelia for pointing out it’s just one data point when viewed on the ‘exact’ setting, image added below. The ‘outbreak’ might be an error, we’ll wait for an update.
#Yeg #Flu
Meg@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca oh cool because one "summer flu" wasn't enough...
Meg@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca also poking around in the cities, wtf is up with Taber...
David Mitchell :CApride:@megmac@social.treehouse.systems
Smaller communities have noisier signals 🤷♂️
Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @megmac@social.treehouse.systems The Edmonton data is really strange; it's a higher concentration than at any time last fall/winter! It's only one reading so far, though, so could be a data entry error?
But then again, yeah, it looks like the flu never disappeared in some parts of southern Alberta. One of the Calgary stations also has head steady influenza all June & July. All those people who let measles wipe out their immune memory are getting follow-up illnesses, maybe?
David Mitchell :CApride:@megmac@social.treehouse.systems @AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca
Not just one reading, it’s a steady rise over 4 readings from 0 on June 29 to quite high on July 20. Yes, some kind of immune deficiency seems the most likely explanation I guess. A summer flu season is certainly a worrying development.
Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @megmac@social.treehouse.systems You're looking at the rolling average. The steady rise is how much of that one high reading gets averaged into each of the previous measurements (which have all been zero since the end of May). You have to switch to the "Exact" chart to see the individual readings. 🧐
Taber and Calgary do have measurable influenza levels all month, at higher concentrations than Edmonton got all year (probably due to different dilution factors in the sewage system). Until there's replication, my guess is the Edmonton outlier data point is a mislabelled sample or data entry error.
David Mitchell :CApride:@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca @megmac@social.treehouse.systems
Right, I keep forgetting that ‘exact’ is still an option for flu data. Thanks.
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦
@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca @megmac@social.treehouse.systems Looks like an error as it’s back to zero now.