Category: surveillance

Five Things You Need to Know About Flu Season

Sick boy with thermometer laying in bed and mother hand taking temperature. Mother checking temperature of her sick son who has thermometer in his mouth. Sick child with fever and illness while resting in bed.

“It’s the least-fun, viral time of the year…” The indicators that CDC uses to track U.S. flu activity have been high this season (2019-2020). That’s the bad news. The good news is that the indicators that track severity–hospitalizations and deaths–are not high at this point (January 2020) in the season. Lots of people are catching Read More >

January 22, 2020 by Blog Administrator2 Comments

Flu, General, preparedness, prevention

#prepyourhealth, flu season, illness, influenza, personal health, public health, seasonal flu, surveillance, vaccine

Sickle Cell Disease: Data Saves Lives

“One minute I’d be fine, the next minute I’d be in pain. It would just come out of nowhere,” says Tywan Willis. “I would have pain in my lower back, my shoulders, and sometimes in my legs. I can’t describe it. I just know it’s a really bad pain that I get.” Tywan has sickle Read More >

October 10, 2017 by Blog Administrator1 Comment

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genetic disorder, inherited blood disease, Los Angeles, Martin Luther King Jr Outpatient Center, patient care, public health, SCD, Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, Sickle Cell Disease, surveillance