If you're in UK, now is good time to sign up for flusurvey.net, which was set up during 2009 flu pandemic to track community illness. It's easy to fill out each week, and provides valuable data on milder infections. Here are some insights it's previously produced... 1/
Factors that lead to increased risk of influenza-like illness, which include contact with children, being aged between 35 and 64, and being a smoker (but not use of public transport) bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 2/
Estimation of the underlying level of disease during the 2009 influenza epidemic, which made it possible to get a refined estimate of fatality risk bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 3/
Impact that illness has on quality of life – the mean loss of quality-adjusted life for influenza-like illness was around 2 days sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 4/
Flusurvey now includes questionnaire on COVID-19 as well. And remember to fill it out even if you feel fine – knowing how many people were and weren't ill at each point in time in different areas is very useful information! 5/5
