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ESPN Networks To Carry Comprehensive Coverage Of The 2016 NBA Finals
The matchup for the 2016 NBA Finals is now official. The Golden State Warriors will continue their record-setting season and defend their title against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals. And the ESPN networks will have full coverage of the season's final series.
The 2016 NBA Finals tip off this Thursday, June 1st on ABC. It marks the 14th time that ABC has covered the NBA Finals. Coverage of Game One is set to begin at pm ET. The same applies to each weeknight Finals broadcast. Coverage for Sunday games begins at 8pm ET. Each game will be preceded by a half-hour, on-site edition of NBA Countdown on ABC. Sage Steel will anchor each broadcast. She will be joined on site by analysts Doug Collins and Jalen Rose. It will be the third year that the trio will handle pre-game duties together at the NBA Finals. As an added bonus for fans Paul Pierce, 10-time NBA All-Star and 2008 NBA Finals MVP, will join Steel and company as a special guest analyst for select games. Each game will be simulcast on television on ABC and ESPN Deportes, on the radio via ESPN Radio, and online via WatchESPN.
Mike Breen will anchor each game's broadcast. He will be joined by analysts Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, and reporter Doris Burke. Former NBA official Steve Javie will be live from the NBA replay center in Seacaucus, NJ for additional commentary. This year's broadcast is a record for Van Gundy. It will be the 11th Finals for Breen. Jeff Van Gundy will make his 10th appearance covering the NBA Finals. The full schedule for this year's broadcast of the NBA Finals is noted below.
2016 NBA Finals on ABC schedule
Thu, June 2
NBA Countdown
NBA Finals Game 1
Sun, June 5
Wed, June 8
Fri, June 10
Mon, June 13
NBA Finals Game 5*
Thu, June 16
Sun, June 19
*if necessary
On the radio side, NBA Hall of Famer Hubie Brown will have the call for each game. It will be his 15th year covering the NBA Finals. This includes coverage on both radio and television. That is the most for any NBA commentator. Play-by-Play vet Kevin Calabro will join Brown on ESPN Radio for coverage of the NBA Finals along with reporters Marc Stein and Shelley Smith. Marc Kestecher and Jon Barry will handle pre-game and halftime duties live from the ESPN Radio studios. Each weeknight broadcast of the NBA Finals on ESPN Radio begins at 8pm and Sunday games at 7pm ET.
Alvaro Martin and Carlos Morales will have coverage of the NBA Finals for ESPN Deportes. They will be joined by reporters Claudia Trejos, Sebastian Martinez-Christensen for additional commentary. Additional news about the ESPN networks' coverage of the NBA Finals is available online now along with all of the latest NBA headlines at:
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NBA Finals Game Three Tips Off AT 9pm Tonight On ABC
The 2014 NBA Finals are "heating up" after Miami evened its series against the San Antonio Spurs Sunday. The Heat defeated the Spurs Sunday 98-96, tying the series at one game each. Game three will be broadcast exclusively on ABC tonight at 9pm ET. Mike Breen will have the call for tonight's game. He will be joined by analysts Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson. Reporter Doris Burke and officiating analyst Steve Javie will also be on hand for commentary.
Broadcast of tonight's Game Three will be preceded by NBA Countdown live from the American Airlines Arena in Miami at 8:30pm ET. Sage Steel will anchor the broadcast and will be joined by analysts Bill Simmons, Jalen Rose, and Doug Collins.
Along with its broadcast on ABC, tonight's broadcast of Game Three will be simulcast on ESPN Radio affiliates nationwide. Kevin Calabro will have the call. He will be joined by analyst Hubie Brown and reporter Marc Stein for additional insight throughout the game. ESPN Radio's pre-game coverage begins at 8pm ET. Marc Kestecher and analyst Jon Barry will contribute to that broadcast. ESPN Deportes will carry tonight's broadcast of Game Three as well. Alvaro Martin and Carlos Morales will have commentary for ESPN Deportes. .
Game Four of the 2014 NBA finals will be simulcast on ABC, ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes Thursday, June 12th at 9pm ET. Game Five is scheduled for Sunday, June 15th at 8pm ET. Both games will be preceded by NBA Countdown half an hour before tipoff.
All games of the NBA Finals broadcast on ABC are also available online through most internet and mobile internet platforms including: Xbox, Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV via WatchESPN. There are also special simulcasts on ESPN3.
More information on coverage of the 2014 NBA Finals is available online at http://www.facebook.com/NBAonESPN and http://espn.go.com/nba. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and "Like" it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil's Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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ABC, ESPN Release NBA Finals Broadcast Schedule
ABC and ESPN will broadcast the entire NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
Officials with both networks have announced that the Best-Of-Seven series between the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers will be broadcast between the two networks beginning this Sunday, May 18th. ABC will carry Game on Sunday afternoon with tipoff at 3:15pm ET live from the Banker's Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Game One will be preceded by NBA Countdown at 3pm ET. Mike Breen will anchor Sunday's opening game. He will be joined by analyst Jeff Van Gundy and reporter Doris Burke. The trio will handle the entire series. Sage Steel will anchor NBA Coutndown. Analysts Bill Simmons, Jalen Rose, and Doug Collins will be on hand as well for additional commentary. All other NBA Countdown broadcasts will air at 7pm ET on ESPN.
Spanish-speaking audiences will be able to catch the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on ESPN Deportes. Alvaro Martin and Carlos Morales will have the call for the series. Claudia Trejos and Sebastian Martinez Christensen will anchor ESPN Deportes' pre-game and halftime broadcasts.
ESPN Radio will carry both the Eastern and Western Conference finals nationally. Marc Kestecher and analyst Jon Barry will handle broadcast duties for ESPN Radio's coverage of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. Kevin Calabro and Hubrie Brown will have the call for the Western Conference Finals.
Fans around the world can catch both the Eastern and Western Conference Finals via ESPN International. The Eastern Conference Finals will be able to be seen in South America, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Oceania. The Western Conference Finals will be available throughout Oceania. The complete NBA Finals broadcast schedule is listed below.
2014 Eastern Conference Finals and NBA Countdown schedule:
Date Time (ET) Telecast Network(s)
Sun, May 18 3 p.m. NBA Countdown ABC, WatchABC
3:30 p.m. Game One: Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers ABC, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, WatchABC, ESPN3
Tues, May 20 7 p.m. Kia NBA Countdown ESPN, WatchESPN
8 p.m. 2014 NBA Draft Lottery ESPN, WatchESPN
8:30 p.m. Game Two: Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers ESPN, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, WatchESPN
Sat, May 24 7:30 p.m. Kia NBA Countdown ESPN, WatchESPN
8:30 p.m. Game Three: Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat ESPN, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, WatchESPN
Mon, May 26 7:30 p.m. Kia NBA Countdown ESPN, WatchESPN
8:30 p.m. Game Four: Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat ESPN, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, WatchESPN
Wed, May 28 7:30 p.m. Kia NBA Countdown ESPN, WatchESPN
8:30 p.m. Game Five: Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers *if necessary ESPN, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, WatchESPN
Fri, May 30 7:30 p.m. Kia NBA Countdown ESPN, WatchESPN
8:30 p.m. Game Six: Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat *if necessary ESPN, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, WatchESPN
Sun, June 1 7:30 p.m. Kia NBA Countdown ESPN, WatchESPN
8:30 p.m. Game Seven: Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers *if necessary ESPN, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, WatchESPN
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ABC, ESPN Networks Carrying Seven Playoff Games This Weekend
NBA fans have plenty of reason to be happy this weekend. ABC and ESPN have seven games on tap this weekend. Three of those games will air on ESPN Friday night beginning with a matchup between the Knicks and Celtics. The Knicks will look to extend their two-game lead over Boston as the teams face off in game three of that series Friday night at 8pm. It will air on ESPN and ESPN Radio affiliates across the country. Fans can also catch the game online and via mobile access through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app. Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, and Heather Cox will have the call on ESPN. Marc Kestecher and Dr. Jack Ramsey will call the game for ESPN Radio. The game is scheduled to start at 8pm EST.
The second of the night's triple header sees the Spurs and Lakers face off in the third game of their series, too. The Spurs are up two games to none in that best-of-seven series. Injuries have plagued the Lakers, who are looking to get their footing again Friday night. The game is scheduled to start at 10:30pm EST. It will air live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. Fans can also watch the game online and on mobile devices through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app. Mike Tirico, Hubie Brown, and Chris Broussard will have the call on ESPN. They will be joined by Alvaro Martin and Carlos Morales for ESPN Deportes.
Also at 10:30, the Warriors will look to break the one-game time with the Nuggets when the teams head back to Oakland. The Warriors come into Friday's game with some momentum. The team as a whole shot nearly sixty-five percent and made 14 of 25 three-point shots. Four of the team's players scored twenty points in game two Tuesday night. The Warriors have also outrebounded the Nuggets 91 to 71 over the course of the series' first two games. The Nuggets are looking to regain some footing Friday night when they are hoping to get Kenneth Faried back in the lineup after having lost him in Game 1 to a sprained ankle. Friday's matchup will air on ESPN2 and can be viewed online and on mobile devices through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app. Dave Pasch, Jon Barry, and Holly Rowe will have all the action and news throughout the game.
The weekend showcase closes out with a Sunday doubleheader pitting the Knicks and Celtics against each other again for Game Four in the teams' best-of-seven series first. The game will air at 1pm on ABC and on ESPN Radio affiliates across the nation. Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy and Heather Cox will be back to call the action again for the game, while Marc Kestecher and Dr. Jack Ramsay will have the call for ESPN Radio.
The day's second game tips off at 3:30pm EST. The Bucks are hoping to dig out of a two game hole right now with game three tonight at 7pm. Game four will be Sunday afternoon on ABC and ESPN Deportes. Mike Tirico, Hubie Brown, and Chris Broussard will be on hand for ESPN. Alvaro Martin and Carlos Morales will call all the action for ESPN Deportes. It all starts with the Kia NBA Countdown at 12:30pm EST. Hosts Magic Johnson, Bill Simmons, Jalen Rose, and Michael Wilbon will discuss the weekend's previous games and their implications as the NBA post season rolls on, as well as Sunday's games on tap. Fans can catch the Countdown on ABC.
A full schedule of the weekend's games is available below.
Date Time (ET) Game / Commentators Networks
Fri, Apr 26 8 p.m. New York Knicks at Boston Celtics (Gm. 3)
ESPN: Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, Heather Cox
ESPN Radio: Marc Kestecher, Dr. Jack Ramsay ESPN, ESPN Radio, WatchESPN
10:30 p.m. San Antonio Spurs at Los Angeles Lakers (Gm. 3)
ESPN: Mike Tirico, Hubie Brown, Chris Broussard
ESPN Deportes: Alvaro Martin, Carlos Morales ESPN, WatchESPN, ESPN Deportes
10:30 p.m. Denver Nuggets at Golden State Warriors (Gm. 3)
ESPN: Dave Pasch, Jon Barry, Holly Rowe ESPN2, WatchESPN
Sat, Apr 27 7 p.m. Indiana Pacers at Atlanta Hawks (Gm. 3)
ESPN: Mark Jones, Doris Burke, Holly Rowe ESPN, WatchESPN
9:30 p.m. Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets (Gm. 3)
ESPN: Dave Pasch, Jon Barry, Samantha Ponder
ESPN Radio: Kevin Calabro, Chris Mullin
ESPN Deportes: Alvaro Martin, Carlos Morales ESPN, ESPN Radio, WatchESPN, ESPN Deportes
Sun, Apr 28 12:30 p.m. KIA NBA Countdown
Magic Johnson, Bill Simmons, Jalen Rose, Michael Wilbon ABC
1 p.m. New York Knicks at Boston Celtics (Gm. 4)
ESPN Radio: Marc Kestecher, Dr. Jack Ramsay ABC, ESPN Radio
3:30 p.m. Miami Heat at Milwaukee Bucks (Gm. 4)
ESPN Deportes: Alvaro Martin, Carlos Morales ABC, ESPN Deportes
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Written on November 16, 2013
Reading: Frank Dikötter — The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
Like Japan in the '90s or Afghanistan until Bush Jr. was ousted and the 'current affairs' readers stopped caring, China has been for at least the last decade the subject of endless mountains of books, each anticipated, packed, and sold as the last word, the real truth on the Middle Kingdom, most heading quickly for the forgotten bargain bins and pulping. It's really difficult to find better-publicised works that are of substance, that aren't simply a rehashing of secondary sources, that are written by people who fundamentally know what they're talking about and have devoted their lives to their field.
I've already finished Frank Dikötter's The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, a work I'd been waiting for, and I could probably dispense with the post-reading praise as it's not really possible at the moment for him to write something not worth reading. I'd previously read The Age of Openness: China Before Mao – the only disappointment there being lack of pages – and Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, written before this one but chronologically coming directly after. There is one more to complete this trilogy, covering the Cultural Revolution, which will probably arrive in three years.
Both of the first two in this trilogy are masterworks, drawing on recently opened Communist Party archives across China, and pieced together from the often partial and incomplete information available. That this is even possible at all is remarkable, as it is the same party that committed these crimes which remains in power, and it is the descendants of those criminals who sit as rulers.
I find it strange and disturbing when I walk into my favourite bookshop and there's a copy of Mao's Little Red Book, or for example the Elizabeth Bear collection I'm now reading she whimsically names a synthetic cat Chairman Miaow. It feels to me as if there's a disjuncture in understanding Mao's place in the pantheon of 20th Century despots, an understanding that for most Europeans, Anglo-Americans and the general English-speaking part of the world would be self-evident if they walked into said bookshop and it was Hitler's Mein Kampf, or the cat was named Führer Adolph. Even Stalin suffers (or perhaps gains) from an ambivalence or even disinterest in recognising his place in the history of terror, possibly because however close to Europe Russia is, there is a sense it is still Other and so the suffering he inflicted upon the Soviet Union was not necessarily part of the history of Europe and not quite as worthy.
Mao then – and the Chinese Communists – being even further east and perceived as entirely un-European (despite whatever basis his brand of Year Zero communism had in Marx, or that China had been a quasi-colony of Britain for quite some time) seems to be more a subject of patronising carelessness than a person and political party that did to China – and Tibet, and the other peripheral countries that became provinces after Liberation – ten times over what Hitler and the Nazis did in Europe, as well being directly responsible for what happened in Cambodia, Vietnam, much of South-East Asia, and North Korea. Unsurprisingly, it was Euro-American racism and post-colonial political meddling that in no small way abetted his rise to power.
The Tragedy of Liberation fills in the ten-year period from Liberation in 1949 to the end of the Hundred Flowers Campaign and the start of the Great Leap Forward, additionally covering the period of the Japanese occupation, and civil war. It is entirely grim, horrific reading. There is no pleasure to be found in the documenting of a country being ransacked and ground into the dirt, its people destroyed by the tens of millions, especially that this decade was just the beginning of a horror that did not begin to abate until the end of the '70s. Even today the political decision-making and ruling frame remains substantially unchanged, merely a policy that resulted in the country being driven into the dark ages has been replaced by unmitigated capitalism. A history of China post-Mao I suspect will eventually show these most recent three decades to have been as destructive in their own way as the previous three.
Frank Dikötter — The Tragedy of Liberation
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Violence In Ukraine Is A Bloody Image That Presages Another Horrific War That Will Devastate Europe
By Shoebat on January 11, 2019 in Featured, General, Highlight
By Theodore Shoebat
Millions of people have suffered in Ukraine because of the political machinations of both NATO and Russia. A recent report from the BPB recounts this dismal reality:
Since 2014, more than 10,000 people have died in the war. According to the German Red Cross , around 3.4 million people were dependent on humanitarian aid in the summer of 2018. About 2.8 million people were forced to flee from eastern Ukraine, including 1.6 million internally displaced persons. The former coal and industrial area of the Donetsk Basin is in ruins.
The same report also speaks of Russia's involvement in the Russian incursions into Crimea:
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict began in the days following the Maidan revolution in early 2014. On February 27, 2014, soldiers without sovereignty insignia appeared on the Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. They declared that they wanted to protect the rights of ethnic Russians in the Crimea, occupied strategically important points, including the regional parliament, and established a new regional government. Initially, Russia participated in the participation of its own soldiers. Months later, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on state television that they were Russian special forces.
What concrete goals Russia is pursuing with its Ukraine policy is unclear to many observers. At his " Crimean speech"Vladimir Putin spoke of the restoration of the unity of a historical Russia to which he also counted the South of Ukraine in a press conference on April 17, 2014. This questioned the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state of Russia, in the same month in Eastern Ukraine According to observers, former members and active members of the Russian military intelligence service GRU were directly involved in this, as of August 2014, after Russia had also established regular armed forces in eastern Ukraine.
There was also coordination and collaboration between the US and Ukrainian intelligence in commencing the Ukrainian revolution against Viktor Yanukovych. In 2014, right after the Euromaidan revolution, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, who was before this the first deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine, was elected Commissioner in charge of supervision over the Security Service of Ukraine. Nalyvaichenko's work with Ukraine's Security Service was highly controversial on account of his deep history with the CIA. In fact, when the Security Service had its graduation ceremony for recruits in 2008, it was attended by both the US ambassador William Taylor Jr. and Nalyvaichenko whose decision to invite the ambassador was criticized by current and former employees of the Security Service.
The Euromaidan revolution of 2014 was infested with Ukrainian nationalists and Nazis who were militants of various violent paramilitary organizations. Information actually leaked out revealing that Nalyvaichenko was involved with summer training camps for the Stephan Bandera Tryzub, a Nazi neo-Nazi organization. That the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (which is the CIA of Ukraine) was working to train neo-Nazis, and that this head of the Service was intimate with Washington, really reveals that the Gladio policy — in which NATO intelligence services recruited and trained Nazis after the Second World War to form paramilitaries in Europe — never ended and still continues today. This may shed light as to why German neo-Nazis were traveling to Ukraine to fight Russians, and why the French metal singer, Famine, travelled to Kiev to spread pro-Nazi propaganda late 2017.
It was in such training camps for Ukrainian Nazis that on July 17th, 2013, in the village of Ternopol, Dmytry Yarosh, leader of the Tryzub, declared that Ukraine needs a "national revolution" and as long as "the Russian Empire in any form" exists, Ukrainian independence will be impossible. In early April 2014, the Ukrainian publication, Ukrainian Pravda ("Ukrainian Truth") published a report entitled, Za Kulisamy Pravogo Sektora ("The Right Sector: Behind the Scene"). The report noted how Nalyvaichenko, while a member of parliament, had Nazi terrorist Dmytry Yarosh, as his aid and consultant in the Supreme Rada.
It is not that surprising that McCain collaborated with the Nazi party in Ukraine, Svoboda, even with its leader, Oleh Tyahnybok. The resurgence of ultra-nationalism in Ukraine does not only involve anti-Russian sentiment, but also anti-Polish sentiment as well. McCain's ally Tyahnybok actually demanded that Poland give to Ukraine 19 of its districts. On April of 2013, the Polish government registered a draft resolution that declared the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and UPA (the Ukrainian Insurgent Army) as main perpetrators of the genocide of the Polish people during the Third Reich reign of terror. The Ukrainian government struck back at Poland, with Ukraine's parliament stating that the "project shows signs of Polish colonialism and chauvinism, interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine and territorial claims of Ukraine." (See Byshok & Kochetkov, Neo Nazis & Euromaidan)
To this day Ukraine honors these Ukrainian death squads as heroes, as a report from CS Monitor states:
Tensions between Ukrainians and one of their traditional oppressors, Poland, go back centuries. But the current acrimony has its roots in the chaotic events of World War II, when Ukrainian nationalists sided with Nazi Germany in hopes that defeat of the Soviet Union could lead to creation of a Ukrainian state. The Nazis had other plans, and Bandera was arrested when he tried to declare independence in 1941.
But thousands of his followers in the UPA continued their battle, often in collaboration with the Nazis, in hopes of achieving that goal. Critics argue that, while they were certainly "fighters for Ukrainian independence," they are in no way presentable as founding father figures due to their fascist ideology, collaboration with the Nazis, and involvement in mass ethnic cleansings of non-Ukrainian ethnic groups.
Tensions between Poland and Ukraine are still ongoing and increasing. Poland passed a law criminalizing propaganda in favor of the racist Bandera ideology, and also any denial of the military crimes committed by Ukrainian allies of the Nazis (particularly, the Volhynia Massacre of 1943-1945). The bloodthirstiness and cruelty really showed itself in Volhynia where Ukrainian nationalists butchered a quarter of a million Poles.
It is this genocide that the Poles mention often, and it is the mention of this genocide that enrages Ukrainian nationalists who adamantly will deny this butchery. While the Polish government criminalizes denial of this genocide and praise for the murderers, the Ukrainian government officially recognizes the Ukrainian Insurgent Army members as "fighters for the freedom and revival of the Ukrainian statehood" and actually makes it a criminal offence to object to their violent acts.
Here is an observation that is worth considering: the fact that Ukraine still praises the orchestrators and executors of genocide, means that Ukrainian nationalists can do it all again. And yes, I am suggesting that Ukrainian nationalists can bring back the killing fields and butcher hundreds of thousands of Poles.
In the year 2014, our modern world — so used to war violence being seen in the Middle East and Africa — saw the savagery of the European pagan in Ukraine. In the region of Odessa on May 2nd of 2014, political opponents were burned alive in a building by Ukrainian nationalists, the descendants of the nationalists who butchered Poles in Volhynia. The militants set the building on fire with molotov cocktails and cried out, "Glory to Ukraine!" as they watched with glee as people, agonizing in flames, leaped out of windows.
We have become so conditioned to talk about war torn Africa, or the war torn Middle East, that when someone mentions the idea of a war torn Europe, devastated by Europeans killing one another over ideology, that people will listen with an indifferent silence that comes from a mind urging to talk about the headlines of the Middle East or what the president said.
But we must at least conceive the idea in our minds: Europe will be ripped apart by war, and we have already seen a bloody image of this in Ukraine.
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Pneumonia among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza virus infection—United States, 2005–2008
Shikha Garg1, 2Email author,
Seema Jain1,
Fatimah S. Dawood1,
Michael Jhung1,
Alejandro Pérez1,
Tiffany D'Mello1, 16,
Arthur Reingold3,
Ken Gershman4,
James Meek5,
Kathryn E. Arnold6,
Monica M. Farley7,
Patricia Ryan8,
Ruth Lynfield9,
Craig Morin9,
Joan Baumbach10,
Emily B. Hancock10,
Shelley Zansky11,
Nancy Bennett12, 13,
Ann Thomas14,
William Schaffner15 and
Lyn Finelli1
© Garg et al. 2015
Received: 21 January 2015
Influenza and pneumonia combined are the leading causes of death due to infectious diseases in the United States. We describe factors associated with pneumonia among adults hospitalized with influenza.
Through the Emerging Infections Program, we identified adults ≥ 18 years, who were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza during October 2005 through April 2008, and had a chest radiograph (CXR) performed. Pneumonia was defined as the presence of a CXR infiltrate and either an ICD-9-CM code or discharge summary diagnosis of pneumonia.
Among 4,765 adults hospitalized with influenza, 1392 (29 %) had pneumonia. In multivariable analysis, factors associated with pneumonia included: age ≥ 75 years, adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.27 (95 % confidence interval 1.10–1.46), white race AOR 1.24 (1.03–1.49), nursing home residence AOR 1.37 (1.14–1.66), chronic lung disease AOR 1.37 (1.18–1.59), immunosuppression AOR 1.45 (1.19–1.78), and asthma AOR 0.76 (0.62–0.92). Patients with pneumonia were significantly more likely to require intensive care unit (ICU) admission (27 % vs. 10 %), mechanical ventilation (18 % vs. 5 %), and to die (9 % vs. 2 %).
Pneumonia was present in nearly one-third of adults hospitalized with influenza and was associated with ICU admission and death. Among patients hospitalized with influenza, older patients and those with certain underlying conditions are more likely to have pneumonia. Pneumonia is common among adults hospitalized with influenza and should be evaluated and treated promptly.
Influenza illness is generally characterized by acute onset of fever, mylagias, and respiratory symptoms, and while disease usually resolves without complications in healthy indiviudals, influenza is associated with an annual increase in hospital admissions for pulmonary, cardiovascular and neuromuscular compliations [1–3]. The etiology of influenza-associated pneumonia may include primary influenza pneumonia, secondary bacterial pneumonia, or concomitant viral and bacterial pneumonia [1, 4, 5]. Pulmonary complications of influenza, including pneumonia and exacerbations of chronic pulmonary disease, are common and result in significant morbidity and mortality. Oliveira and colleagues found that among all patients admitted to a large metropolitan hospital with influenza during the 1999–2000 season, 49 % had pneumonia [6]. Further, in a study conducted over 4 influenza seasons (1999–2003), Murata and colleagues found that among 193 patients hospitalized with influenza A, 52 % had some type of acute findings on chest radiograph and 17 % had definitive pneumonic infiltrates [7]. Although there is evidence that adult patients with underlying cardiac or pulmonary disease are more likely to develop influenza-associated pneumonia than those without underlying medical conditions [6, 7], much of the data describing factors associated with influenza-associated pneumonia among adults comes from case series conducted at single sites and during a limited number of seasons. Using data from a large multi-center, geographically diverse, population-based surveillance system, we describe factors associated with pneumonia among adults hospitalized with influenza over three consecutive years in which seasonal influenza viruses circulated.
The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) network conducts active population-based surveillance for laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations. The network began adult surveillance in 2005 and covers over 80 counties in 10 states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee), representing approximately 7 % of the adult U.S. population [8]. Patients were included in EIP influenza surveillance if they resided and were hospitalized in an EIP catchment area and were hospitalized within 14 days of a positive influenza diagnostic test result. Patients were excluded if the first positive influenza specimen was obtained >3 days after hospital admission because these patients might have had healthcare-associated influenza infection. Influenza testing was performed at the discretion of health care providers. Medical charts of hospitalized patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza were retrospectively reviewed [8, 9].
The study period comprised 3 influenza seasons, 2005–2006 to 2007–2008. Patients were included in this analysis if they were ≥ 18 years of age, were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza during the 2005–2006 through 2007–2008 influenza seasons, and had a chest radiograph (CXR) performed during hospitalization. The following data were collected on patients: demographics, results of laboratory tests for influenza, influenza vaccination status for the current season, underlying medical conditions, bacterial coinfections, CXR data, antiviral treatment, clinical outcomes, and discharge diagnoses. Laboratory confirmation of influenza was based on viral culture, direct or indirect immunoflourescence antibody staining, reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction, or a rapid antigen test. Surveillance staff completed medical record abstractions using check boxes to indicate whether or not a new infiltrate or consolidation was recorded on the official CXR transcript. Discharge diagnoses were captured in two ways: 1) the first nine international classification of diseases (ICD-9-CM) codes for each case were abstracted from the medical record; 2) check boxes were marked for certain diagnoses, including pneumonia, if they were recorded by clinicians on the discharge summary. Pneumonia was defined as the presence of a new infiltrate on CXR and either an ICD-9-CM discharge diagnosis code for pneumonia (480–487.0) or a diagnosis of pneumonia recorded on discharge summary.
Information on the presence of selected bacterial infections was available only for patients who had a positive culture. A bacterial infection was recorded if bacteria other than those that are commonly considered to be contaminants grew from a sterile body site or a non-sterile respiratory site culture obtained within 3 calendar days of hospital admission. Sterile body sites for bacterial infections included blood, pleural fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and deep tissue biopsy. Non-sterile respiratory sites included sputum and endotracheal aspirates.
Use of influenza antiviral therapy was examined for all individuals. Among those who were treated with antiviral agents, timing of treatment was assessed in relation to hospitalization date. Early antiviral treatment was defined as initiation of antiviral treatment within 2 days of hospital admission.
We used bivariate analysis to compare adults hospitalized with influenza with and without pneumonia. We used χ2 and Fisher exact tests for categorical variables and t-tests and Wilcoxon-rank sum tests for continuous and ordinal variables. All variables significant in bivariate analysis, as well as biologically plausible variables, and potential confounders were included in a multivariable logistic regression model to identify factors independently associated with influenza-associated pneumonia. We used the Breslow-Day test for homogeneity to assess for effect modification of select variables. All tests were two-tailed and a p-value of 0.05 was considered significant. Analyses were conducted using SAS Version 9.2 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC).
EIP adult influenza hospitalization surveillance activities during the 2005–2007 influenza seasons were determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Institutional Review Board (IRB) not to involve research in accordance with the federal regulations for the protection of human subjects in research. Starting with the 2007-2008 season, research questions were added to evaluate factors associated with severe outcomes during hospitalizations, and IRB review was conducted at all surveillance sites and the CDC. The protocol was approved by the CDC IRB and was either approved or received exempt status by all surveillance site IRBs. Because all surveillance data was analyzed anonymously, neither verbal nor written informed consent was obtained from participants.
During the study period, of 5055 adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza, 4765 (94.3 %) had an available CXR report and discharge diagnosis information and were therefore included in our study. Of the 4765 adults, 1392 (29 %) had pneumonia. The prevalence of pneumonia did not vary significantly over the 3 influenza seasons included in the analysis. Adults ≥75 years of age represented the age group with the highest proportion of patients hospitalized with and without influenza-associated pneumonia (Fig. 1). The median age of patients with pneumonia compared with patients without pneumonia was 74 years versus 69 years (p <0.01) (Table 1). The majority of patients hospitalized with and without influenza-associated pneumonia were white. White patients were older (median age 74 years) than black patients (53 years), Hispanic patients (56 years), and patients of other races including Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaskan Native, and multi-race (69 years) (p <0.01). Patients aged 65 years and above had a higher proportion of underlying conditions (90 %) compared to patients aged < 65 years (79 %) (p < 0.01). Influenza was diagnosed by rapid test only in 1048/1390 (75 %) patients with pneumonia and in 2396/3368 (71 %) patients without pneumonia (p < 0.01).
Age distribution of adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza with and without pneumonia, Emerging Infections Program, 2005–2008 (n=4765). Bar labels denote percent of adults in each age group with pneumonia
Comparison of characteristics of adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza with and without pneumonia, Emerging Infections Program, 2005–2008 (n = 4765)
Patients with pneumonia; n = 1392 no. (%)
Patients without pneumonia; n = 3373 no. (%)
Unadjusted odds ratio (95 % CI)
Adjusted odds ratio (95 % CI)
Age in years, median (range)
Age ≥75 years
1.39 (1.23–1.58)
White, non-Hispanic
Black, non-Hispanic
Othera
Virus Type
Influenza Vaccineb
Nursing Home Residentc
Underlying Conditionsd
Chronic Lung Disease
Chronic Metabolic Disease
Renal Disease
Cognitive Dysfunction
Other Condition
Symptom onset to admission, median days (range)e
aOther Races include Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaskan Indian, and multi-race
bIncludes 4730 cases with non-missing data
cIncludes 4713 cases with non-missing data
dChronic lung disease: all diseases other than asthma, reactive airways disease and cystic fibrosis; Cardiovascular disease: structural cardiac defects, arrhythmias, current ischemic heart disease, and congestive heart failure or other functional impairment; Chronic metabolic disease: diabetes, thyroid disorders, adrenal insufficiency and pituitary abnormalities; Renal disease: chronic renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, renal tubular acidosis, glomerulonephritis, medullary cystic disease, and polycystic kidney disease; Immunosuppression: HIV/AIDS, immunoglobulin deficiency, and immunosuppressive therapy; Cognitive dysfunction: conditions where handling of respiratory secretions is impaired; Neuromuscular disease: muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, quadriplegia, spinal cord injury, and spinal abnormalities, and stroke; Cancers: diagnosed within the past 12 months and exclude non-melanoma skin cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia; Other conditions include pregnancy, hemoglobinopathy, lymphoma, leukemia, cystic fibrosis, Guillain Barré Syndrome
eIncludes 4404 cases with non-missing data
The median number of days from symptom onset to hospital admission was 2 days for patients with and without pneumonia (Table 1). Patients with pneumonia were significantly more likely than patients without pneumonia to reside in a nursing home prior to hospital admission, to have received influenza vaccine, and to have the following underlying medical conditions: chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease, and immunosuppression. Patients with pneumonia were significantly less likely than patients without pneumonia to have asthma (Table 1). A description of the most frequent discharge diagnoses (based on first listed ICD-9 diagnosis code) among patients with and without pneumonia can be found in Additional file 1: Table S1.
Except for influenza vaccination and cardiovascular disease, all factors included in a multivariable model remained independently associated with pneumonia including age ≥75 years [adjusted odds ration (AOR) 1.27], white race (AOR 1.24), nursing home residence (AOR 1.37) chronic lung disease (AOR 1.37), immunosuppression (AOR 1.45) and asthma (AOR 0.76) (Table 1).
Sixty-one patients with pneumonia and 68 patients without pneumonia had sterile site bacterial infections, 90 % of which were cultured from the blood (Table 2). The most common pathogens cultured from sterile sites in patients with pneumonia were Staphylococcous aureus (S. aureus) and Streptococcus pneumonia (S. pneumonia).
Sterile sitea bacterial coinfections among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza with and without pneumonia, Emerging Infections Program, 2005–2008 (n = 129)
Patients with pneumonia n = 61; no. (%)
Patients without pneumonia n = 68; no. (%)
Group A streptococcus
Gram negative rodsb
Other streptococcic
Other pathogensd
Unknown pathogens
Information on the presence of select bacterial infections was available only for patients who had a positive culture
aSterile site infections included the following: 118 (91 %) obtained from blood; 3 (2 %) obtained from CSF; 4 (3 %) obtained from pleural fluid; 4 (3 %) obtained from biopsy tissue
bGram negative rods include: Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baumanii, Enterobacter cloacae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
cOther streptococcus species include: agalactiae, group G streptococcus, oralis, mitis, parasanguinis, salivarus, viridians group streptococci
dOther pathogens include: Aerococcus viridans, Enterococcus faecium, Propionibacterium acnes, Clostridium perfringens, Corynebacterium striatum, Staphylococcus hominis
Patients with pneumonia had a longer median length of hospital stay than patients without pneumonia (5 days versus 3 days; p <0.01). Patients with pneumonia were also significantly more likely to have a hospital length of stay greater than one week (AOR 2.99), require intensive care unit (ICU) admission (AOR 3.62), require mechanical ventilation (AOR 4.79), and die (AOR 6.06) (Table 3).
Clinical course and outcomes among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza with and without pneumonia, Emerging Infections Program, 2005–2008 (n = 4765)
Patients with pneumonia n = 1392; no. (%)
Patients without pneumonia n = 3373; no. (%)
Adjusted odds ratioa (95 % CI)
Length of stay >7 days
Mechanical ventilation
aEach outcome is adjusted for age, nursing home residence, the presence of underlying medical conditions, and days from symptom onset to hospital admission
Among patients with pneumonia, factors independently associated with a poor outcome, defined as ICU admission, need for mechanical ventilation or death, included nursing home residence (AOR 1.6), chronic lung disease (AOR 1.6), cardiovascular disease (AOR 1.4), renal disease (AOR 1.5) and immunosuppression (AOR 1.5) (Table 4). Of note, older age was inversely associated with a poor outcome (AOR 0.7) among patients hospitalized with pneumonia (Table 4).
Factors associated with poor outcomes among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza and pneumonia, Emerging Infections Program, 2005–2008 (n = 1392)
Patients without poor outcomesa n = 950; no. (%)
Patients with poor outcomesa n =442; no. (%)
Adjusted odds ratiob (95 % CI)
0.8 (0.6–0.9)
Otherc
Nursing Home Resident*
Underlying Conditions*
Chronic Lung Disease*
Cardiovascular Disease*
Chronic Metabolic Disease*
Renal Disease*
Immunosuppression*
*P-value for bivariate association < 0.05
aPoor outcome defined as ICU admission, need for mechanical ventilation or death
bVariables included in adjusted model included age, nursing home residence, chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease, chronic metabolic disease, renal disease and immunosuppression
cOther Race/Ethnicities include Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaskan Indian, and multi-race
Patients with pneumonia [823/1392 (59 %)] were significantly more likely to receive influenza antiviral therapy than patients without pneumonia [1815/3373 (54 %); P <0.01]. Overall, among 2,638 patients who received influenza antiviral therapy, 98 % received oseltamivir. When limiting our analysis to 2386 patients who presented to the hospital within 2 days of symptom onset, 456/687 (66 %) patients with pneumonia and 1118/1697 (66 %) patients without pneumonia received antiviral treatment (p = 0.82). Among 1574 people who presented to the hospital within 2 days of symptom onset and who received antiviral treatment, data was available on length of time from admission to start of antiviral treatment for 1534 people. The majority, 1469/1534 (96 %) received early antiviral treatment; 871 (57 %) on the day of admission, 470 (31 %) within one day of admission, and 128 (8 %) within two days of admission. Among 445 people with pneumonia, 418 (94 %) received early antiviral treatment and among 1089 people without pneumonia 1051 (96 %) received early antiviral treatment (p = 0.02).
Through this large, population-based surveillance system, we found that pneumonia was present in almost one-third of U.S. adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza over three consecutive years in which seasonal influenza viruses circulated. Patients with pneumonia were older and were more likely to have certain underlying medical conditions than patients without pneumonia. Patients with pneumonia were also more likely to have a prolonged hospital stay, be admitted to an ICU, require mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure, and die. While patients with pneumonia were more likely to receive antiviral therapy than those without pneumonia, treatment was more often delayed among patients with pneumonia.
Similar to findings from smaller inter-pandemic studies [6, 7] pneumonia was common among adults hospitalized with influenza in this study. Among those hospitalized with influenza, older adults and nursing home residents were at significantly increased risk for having influenza-associated pneumonia. Respiratory viruses including influenza are a common etiology of pneumonia in older adults, and several factors may contribute to the development of severe lower respiratory tract disease in these individuals, including decreased respiratory muscle strength and lung compliance, and waning humoral and cell-mediated immunity [10–12]. Additional risk factors for lower respiratory tract disease among older nursing home residents include immobility and swallowing difficulties leading to aspiration [13]. Within closed settings such as nursing homes, large outbreaks of influenza and its subsequent complications, including severe pneumonia, may rapidly evolve and lead to significant morbidity and mortality [10, 14]. Influenza virus infection should thus be considered a potential cause of pneumonia in older individuals and nursing home residents during fall and winter months when influenza viruses are circulating [2] and should be diagnosed and treated promptly. Influenza vaccination is the most effective method to prevent influenza and its complications, and older adults, residents of nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities, and adults with underlying medical conditions should be considered high priority groups for receipt of annual influenza vaccination [15].
Similar to earlier studies conducted during periods of seasonal influenza virus circulation, patients with pneumonia in this study were more likely to have underlying medical conditions including chronic lung disease and heart disease [6, 7]. An unexpected finding was that patients with asthma in our analysis were less likely to have a diagnosis of pneumonia than patients without pneumonia. Our study results contrast with EIP surveillance data in hospitalized children <18 years of age which has shown that children with influenza-associated pneumonia were more likely to have asthma than those without pneumonia [16]. Studies of the association between asthma and seasonal influenza-associated pneumonia among adults are lacking. A possible explanation for our finding is that respiratory distress caused by influenza-associated asthma exacerbation provided an alternate reason for hospitalization in adult patients in the absence of pneumonia. Biases in hospital admission practices based on the presence of underlying conditions may have also contributed to admission of asthmatic patients with a less severe respiratory presentation compared to patients without underlying medical conditions.
Invasive bacterial infections, especially due to S. aureus and S. pneumoniae, were observed among patients with influenza-associated pneumonia in this study as well as other studies conducted during inter-pandemic [7] and pandemic periods [17]. Among patients with pneumonia, S. aureus was the most common organism cultured from specimens collected from sterile sites. Influenza virus and S. aureus co-infections are increasing [18–20] and have been associated with particularly severe cases of community-acquired pneumonia during periods of seasonal influenza virus circulation [21]. In patients hospitalized with influenza, sterile site cultures should be collected as early as possible for detection of bacterial infection and empiric antimicrobial coverage of the most likely bacterial organisms should be considered [22, 23]. In our study, S. pneumoniae was the only organism to be cultured from a sterile site more frequently in patients with pneumonia that in patients without pneumonia. In addition to annual influenza vaccination, pneumococcal vaccine should be administered to adults aged 18–64 years with certain health conditions and to all persons aged ≥65 years [24].
Patients with influenza-associated pneumonia had a significantly increased risk of ICU admission, respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, and death compared with patients without pneumonia. While case series conducted during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic demonstrated elevated frequencies of ICU admission (36–58 %) [25, 26], respiratory failure (10–67 %) [25, 27] and death (7–39 %) [25–28] among patients hospitalized with pandemic H1N1 influenza-associated pneumonia, limited data is available on the association between seasonal influenza-associated pneumonia and severe outcomes. In a small case series of patients hospitalized with influenza during the 1999–2000 season, 10 (58 %) of 17 patients with pneumonia were admitted to the ICU and 5 (29 %) patients died [7]. In another observational study of patients hospitalized with influenza during 1999–2003, 16 (16 %) of 101 patients with acute pulmonary disease were admitted to the ICU, 10 (10 %) required mechanical ventilation, and 6 (6 %) died [6]. While pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been shown to account for a majority of deaths associated with influenza virus infection during pandemics [28], data is limited on the association between seasonal influenza virus infection and death from pneumonia or ARDS.
In our analysis, only 55 % of patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza received influenza antiviral treatment. When limiting the analysis to patients who presented to the hospital within 2 days of symptom onset, only 66 % of all patients received antiviral treatment; the majority received antiviral treatment within 1 day of hospital admission. Multiple studies have found early antiviral treatment to be associated with a reduction in serious influenza-associated outcomes including the development of lower respiratory tract infections [29–31]. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends empiric influenza antiviral treatment for all adults with suspected or confirmed influenza who are hospitalized, have severe, complicated, or progressive illness, or are at high risk for influenza-associated complications [32].
Several limitations to this study should be noted. Influenza diagnostic testing was performed at the discretion of treating clinicians at the various EIP hospital sites. While all hospitalized patients who tested positive for influenza were included in surveillance, data is unavailable for hospitalized patients who tested negative for influenza or who were not tested. Thus, these data may not be representative of all individuals hospitalized with influenza who may not have been tested or have laboratory confirmation of influenza virus infection. It is possible that patients included in surveillance were more likely to be tested for influenza because they were more severely ill; thus a higher proportion of patients exhibiting pneumonia-like symptoms may have been tested for influenza than patients presenting with other symptoms. Furthermore, in our analysis, patients with pneumonia were compared to patients without pneumonia but with a wide array of other diagnoses. Clinican influenza testing practices based on patient diagnoses at presentation may have biased our findings. In one study conducted in an emergency department in Australia, patients presenting with fever and respiratory diagnoses were more likely to be tested for influenza than patients presenting with cardiac or other diagnoses [33]. This study assessed pneumonia specifically among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza, including those whose influenza virus infection preceded hospitalization by more than a few days, and findings are not generalizable to all hospitalized individuals with pneumonia of other etiologies or to non-hospitalized individuals.
Several of the findings in this study may have been biased by hospital admission practices. For example, the finding of an inverse association between asthma and pneumonia may have been due to more aggressive admission of asthmatic patients presenting with respiratory distress despite the absence of pneumonia, compared with patients without asthma. Biases related to hospital admission practices were likely reduced by including patients from multiple hospital sites in geographically diverse settings. For certain underlying conditions such as chronic lung disease and cardiovascular disease, disease type and severity were not captured by the case report form. Availability of detailed data on type and severity of underlying conditions may have helped to better identify factors more strongly associated with development of influenza-associated pneumonia.
Radiographic data were based on review of CXR reports by surveillance officers and not by actual review of radiographs by a designated study radiologist. As a result, some individuals may have been misclassified as having pneumonia based upon a report of infiltrates or opacities, when in fact they had a more chronic pulmonary condition or a transient episode of pulmonary edema or effusion. There was no requirement regarding timing of identification of radiologic abnormalities during the hospitalization, and the timing of chest radiographs during the hospitalization was not collected as part of EIP surveillance; thus, some misclassification of community-acquired pneumonia versus nosocomial pneumonia may have occurred. Using ICD-9-CM code data may also have led to misclassification if a diagnosis code was listed incorrectly or not listed at all. A joint case definition for pneumonia which used both radiographic data and discharge diagnosis data from ICD-9-CM codes or discharge summaries was utilized to minimize some of these biases. Bacterial culture data was only available for patients with a positive culture result rather than for all specimens spent, thus limiting the interpretation of the culture data.
Pneumonia is common among adults hospitalized with seasonal influenza virus infection. Among patients hospitalized with influenza, older adults and those with underlying medical conditions may be more likely to have pneumonia. Further studies are needed to explore the association between influenza-associated pneumonia and asthma in adults. Influenza-associated pneumonia can lead to severe outcomes including ICU admission and death. Adults hospitalized with suspected or confirmed influenza should receive early antiviral therapy, prompt evaluation for pneumonia, and appropriate management upon diagnosis of pneumonia.
CXR:
AOR:
Adjusted odds ratio
EIP:
Emerging infections program
ICD-9-CM:
CDC:
IRB:
S. pneumonia :
Streptococcus pneumonia
We wish to thank the following individuals for their help with surveillance efforts: Deborah Aragon at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado; Darcy Fazio at the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Kyle Openo, Suzanne Segler, Olivia Almendares, Norisse Tellman, Magan Pearson, Wendy Baughman, Jamie Cope, and Ariane Reeves at the Georgia Emerging Infections Program—a collaboration between Georgia Division of Public Health, Emory University and the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, Atlanta, GA; Maya Monroe at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD; Elisabeth Vaeth, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Brenda Jewell, Lori Triden, and Team Influenza at the Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, MN; Kathy Angeles, MPH, Lisa Butler, MPH, Sarah Khanlian, MPH, and Robert Mansmannat, MPH at the New Mexico Emerging Infections Program, a collaboration between the New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Kevin Malloy, MPH and Nancy Spina, MPH at the New York State Health Department, Albany, NY; Ruth Belflower, RN, MPH at the Center for Community Health and Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY; Meredith Vandermeer, MPH at the Oregon Public Health Division, Portland, OR; Brenda G. Barnes, RN, Terri L. McMinn, Lynne Fenner, RN, Karen A. Leib, RN, David Kirschke, MD at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Additional file 1: Table S1. The 10 most frequent ICD-9 diagnosis categories based on first ICD-9 code listed among adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza with and without pneumonia (n=4177).
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Barri Gotic - Gothic Quarter
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Ramon Berenguer III "the Great"
by Kuznetsov_Sergey
Carrer del Bisbe Irurita
by Oleg_D.
Pont dels Sospirs or Bridge of Sighs
by Oleg_D. Written May 26, 2014
Neogothic Pont dels Sospirs or Bridge of Sighs connects the eastern wall of Palau de la Generalitat and western wall of Casa del Canonges (House of Cannons). Previously, there were many other bridges of this kind over Carrer del Bisbe but they were destroyed. This one was built after their destruction in XX century. These bridges were built so that city lay and ecclesiastic elites could travel from official building without interacting with citizens and to avoid any physical contacts with burghers. Although this is not original gothic structure it is no worse than best examples of gothic architecture made in XV century. That's why this is one of many "must see" places in Barcelona.
Gothic Quarter or Barry Gotic in Catalan is the area in the central part of modern Barcelona limited by the La Rambla to Via Laietana and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere. This is the part of so called Siutat Vella or Old city. In fact real Gothic quarter limited by the remains of Ancient Roman walls of Barcino built in IV century A.D.
One of the masterpieces of Gothic Quarter is Eastern wall of Casa Cuitat or City Hall. Although the mane façade of City Hall was built in XIX century its eastern wall is gothic build in XV century decorated be the gargoyles, statues of saints and angels and Royal Aragonese coats of arms. This was is at the Carrer de la Cuitat.
Gothic Quarter, Part II.
The best examples of Gothic architecture you can find near the apse of the Cathedral at Carrer la Pietat and Carrer del Bisbe. Y will be able to observe masterpieces of gothic art there such as building and sculptures of angel and especially the bas-relief with Saint George in full suit of armor typical for the first half of XV century.
Gothic Quarter, Part III.
Gothic Quarter or Barry Gotic in Catalan is the area in the central part of modern Barcelona limited by the La Rambla to Via Laietana and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere. This is the part of so called Siutat Vella or Old city. In fact real Gothic quarter limited by the remains of Ancient Roman walls of Barcino built in IV century A.D. These Roman walls were used as the bearing wall for many medieval structures such as the Palace Chapel, Royal Palace and Palace of Archdeacon. These ancient Roman walls are very similar to those built by Marcus Aurelius in Roma. Especially excellently preserved fragment of Roman wall you can see at Carrer Sots Tinent Navarro not far from Placa de Ramon Berenguer el Gran (Square of Ramon Berenguer the Great).
Gothic Quarter, Part IV
Gothic Quarter or Barry Gotic in Catalan is the area in the central part of modern Barcelona limited by the La Rambla to Via Laietana and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere. This is the part of so called Siutat Vella or Old city. In fact real Gothic quarter limited by the remains of Ancient Roman walls of Barcino built in IV century A.D. These Roman walls were used as the bearing wall for many medieval structures such as the Palace Chapel, Royal Palace and Palace of Archdeacon. Here you can see the view at ancient roman walls and Palace Chapel from the Square of Ramon Berenguer the Great. At this square you can see the monument of mentioned Count of Barcelona.
by MichaelFalk1969 Updated May 21, 2014
The Gothic Quarter or "Barri Gòtic" is the oldtown centre of Barcelona, with many buildings dating back to medieval or even roman times. It is a pedestrian-only area, with many small intersecting streets and squares. Despite its name, additions were made in the 19th - 20th century, so it is not a purely medieval oldtown.
Geographically, it covers the area between the waterfront and Ronda de Sant pere and between Las Ramblas and Via Via Laietana.
Among the main sights are the Cathedral of Santa Eulàlia, the adiacent "claustre" (cloister), the "Bridge of Sighs", Basilica of La Mercè and Placa Reial.
Monument of five Heroes.
by Oleg_D. Written May 9, 2014
This realist monument stands in surprising contrast to the predominant Gothic style of the surrounding buildings. It portrays five martyrs who were executed following an attempted uprising against the French troops during the occupation of Barcelona in 1808. Their names were Joaquín Pou, Juan Gallifa, José Navarro, Juan Massana and Salvador Aulét they met their cruel death on the garrote with dignity.
In XX century the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera culminated with the dedication of a monument to the heroes of the 1809 uprising. At the year of 1929 Josep Llimona was commissioned to create the five bronze elements that surmount the plinth. The sculptures of five heroes are marked by a realism that is devoid of dramatism and show the people who had been condemned to the garrote, shortly before their execution at the Citadel. They were accused of attempting to free Barcelona from the French forces of occupation that had made the city their stronghold during the War of the Spanish Succession of 1808-1813. The plaque on the plinth bears the names of the patriots. An alabaster relief was added to the monument in 1941, when it was rededicated following the Spanish Civil War. It depicts a series of angels and was sculpted by Vicenç Navarro. The monument is enclosed by ceramic benches. The tiling, based on an engraving by Bonaventura Planella, portrays the entrance of the Napoleonic troops to the city. A monument located right in front of the Cathedral's cloister where five martyrs were buried, contrasts in style and theme with the predominant Gothic architecture of the area.
Square of Saint Justus & Fivaller fountain
Outside of the Saints Justus and Pastor in the Square of Saint Justus (Placa de San Just) is a final surprise is in store the Fivaller fountain, which is also Gothic in style. There are some other elements of medieval gothic architecture in the square.
Barri Gotico
by Kuznetsov_Sergey Updated Sep 30, 2013
The Gothic Quarter is the centre of the old city of Barcelona. It stretches from La Rambla to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere.
The gothic block of Barcelona is considered one of most well kept ensembles of the medieval Europe. Narrow dark streets, thick walls, freakish water-drains give sensation of ancient city. The block was kept on a place of the Roman settlement Barsino.
You can watch my 3 min 50 sec Video Barcelona Gothic Quarter part 1 out of my Youtube channel or here on VT.
You can watch my photo of Barcelona on the Google Earth according to the following coordinates 41° 23' 0.04" N 2° 10' 35.03" E or on my Google Earth Panoramio Barri Gothic.
by Kuznetsov_Sergey Written Sep 28, 2013
Ramon Berenguer III "the Great" is the sculpture by Josep Llimona i Bruguera a famous Catalan sculptor in the Barri Gotico. I've never heard about him. You can learn about this count of Barcelona here.
Cool and worth the time to explore !!!!
by jlanza29 Updated Oct 19, 2011
This is the most beautiful and most famous part of Barcelona .... the Old Gothic Neighborhood ..... inter crossing ,winding, and cobble stone streets take you back to the 17th century. The neighborhood now is filled with tons of bars, restaurants and shops offering just about anything you would ever want. Be careful at night, some streets are poorly lighted and robbery here at night is not uncommon ... during the day the masses of people are everywhere. We spent an entire afternoon here .... well worth the time to explore all the streets !!!!
Barri Gotic (Barrio Gotico)
by Airpunk Written Oct 7, 2011
Barcelona's Old Town, the Gothic quarter, sdtands in contrast with the bustling streets in the rest of the city. This part of Barcelona is not quiet at all, but things go a little more slowly and relaxed. It's the kind of place where you can spend some time walking through narrow alleys, admire buildings from centuries ago and take a small break in a little café. The most recognizable building is the Gothic Cathedral, called St. Eulalia or La Seu. But of course, there are hundreds of buildings from the Middle ages and early Renaissance to admire.
The Gothic Quarter in Barcelona
by Xeriss Written Sep 11, 2011
The gothic quarter is the area in which the old town of Barcelona is situated. The streets in this quarter of the city vary considerably in style; however, the old quarter is generally characterized by narrow streets and tall old buildings.
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Barri Gòtic
by June.b Written Jun 15, 2010
It's so easy to do the Barri Gotic or Gothic Quarter tour. Just start walking from the Plaza Reial and work your way up til the city hall - a wide plaza - and to the carrer del bisbe irurita and its surrounds where you'll find lots of old buildings and museums, and churches.
Don't forget to enter the big Cathedral of Santa Eulalia where we found live geese inside the cloister around the water fountain.
If you want detailed explanation of the buildings around, then join the walking tour, but if you prefer - like we do - you can always skip the stories and just walk around on your own pace.
The centre of the old city of Barcelona. It stretches from La Rambla to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere.
We decided to do this tour on our own and surprisingly we did it in few hours.
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Disneyland furloughs another 1,800 employees…
Disneyland furloughs another 1,800 employees with theme parks closed for 'foreseeable future'
The furloughs will impact a wide range of jobs including landscapers, engineers, painters, plasterers and custodians as well as employees working in entertainment, restaurants and attractions.
Buena Vista Street at California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA, on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. Parts of the park are opening for retail and dining as an extension of the Downtown Disney District. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
PUBLISHED: December 1, 2020 at 12:43 p.m. | UPDATED: December 1, 2020 at 4:18 p.m.
Disneyland plans to furlough nearly 1,800 additional employees in the wake of COVID-19 reopening guidelines from Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration that have left California theme parks closed for the "foreseeable future."
Disney announced 1,797 furloughs of Disneyland union and non-union employees due to continuing business impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, known as the WARN Act. Disney filed the WARN Act notifications on Nov. 12 with the furloughs set to start on Nov. 23 and on subsequent dates through Feb. 21.
Disneyland remains closed as large California theme parks are unlikely to return to full operation until early 2021 or next summer under COVID-19 health and safety reopening guidelines issued by the state. Across the esplanade, Disney California Adventure has partially reopened without rides for shopping and dining.
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The furloughs will involve a wide range of jobs including landscapers, engineers, painters, plasterers and custodians as well as employees working in entertainment, restaurants and attractions. The furlough notices also include 18 Disneyland firefighters.
"We have provided impacted employees as much notice as practicable under the circumstances, as we had to act quickly after the state recently announced its unexpected reopening restrictions, which now make clear that we cannot reopen Disneyland Resort in the foreseeable future," according to the WARN Act notification.
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Disneyland president Ken Potrock announced the latest round of furloughs of executive, salaried and hourly workers in early November in a letter to employees.
"Since Disneyland resort closed its gates in March, nothing has been more important than fully reopening and getting our cast members back to work," Potrock wrote. "That's why it is with heavy hearts we find ourselves in the untenable situation of having to institute additional furloughs for our executive, salaried and hourly cast."
The latest furloughs at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Disney Entertainment Productions, Walt Disney Travel and Disney Destinations are expected to be temporary.
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In April, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products furloughed non-essential executives, salaried and non-union hourly employees at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts due to continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Approximately 37,000 Disney employees were on furlough as of Oct. 3, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the company.
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Charles Farrell is Chico, an athiest who works in the Paris sewers (I'm not sure what he does down there – looks like he's doing his laundry, or fishing rags from the water) and dreams of being a mighty street washer up on the surface. Janet Gaynor lives with her abusive sister, possibly both as prostitutes. As usual for the beginning of a Borzage movie, Something Good happens to the guy (he's given a better job) while Something Bad happens to the girl (a rich uncle comes to take them in, asks if they've been "clean" and Janet answers no, so relatives leave and Janet's sister tries to kill her). Chico saves her but gets himself in a pickle with a cop… he says she's his wife, so now the cop will come by Chico's house tomorrow to verify the story.
What to do!? If you said "why doesn't Janet stay at his house for a day" then you're as smart as the screenwriter. Chico lives on the seventh floor, whose set is actually seven stories high, as noted by the outrageous vertical tracking shot following the pair up the stairs. There's some business about who's sleeping where and some talk about God, work, fear of heights and whether Chico is a very remarkable man (he is), and the next day he buys her a wedding dress.
I don't know how long afterwards (a day? a year?), war breaks out, and it breaks out in a hurry – Chico has about an hour to report to duty. The war lasts a few years, he and his street-washin' buddy flamethrow some dudes, the local cabbie is roped into a huge cab-driven troop movement (which actually happened, and which Borzage recreated with either an awful lot of cars or a clever model).
Chico is feared dead, so Janet's admirer back home (not a slimy villain or anything, just a suave dude who likes her) is making his move when Chico bursts in, alive but blind and believing in God, for a happy-ish ending (he's still blind).
The story doesn't sound like much, but it's a gorgeous movie. The street set (which looks familiarly like the one from Street Angel) and the apartment are wonderful, and the war is remarkably shot (dig the silhouette-soldier who attacks Chico).
Farrell and Gaynor are as good as in their other movies (well, maybe Gaynor has less to do here), and Gladys Brockwell (dead two years later after a car crash) shines as Gaynor's whip-bearing sister. Simone Simon and James Stewart starred in a sound remake ten years later, which is not quite as highly regarded.


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Report: 49ers prefer not to trade Jimmy Garoppolo to 1 team
The trade market for Jimmy Garoppolo does not appear to be robust, and that may be because the San Francisco 49ers do not want to do business with one of the most logical suitors for the veteran quarterback. NFL reporter Jordan Schultz said Monday that Niners general manager John Lynch does not want to trade…
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The trade market for Jimmy Garoppolo does not appear to be robust, and that may be because the San Francisco 49ers do not want to do business with one of the most logical suitors for the veteran quarterback.
NFL reporter Jordan Schultz said Monday that Niners general manager John Lynch does not want to trade Garoppolo to the NFC West rival Seattle Seahawks.
As of this morning, the #49ers had not made any more progress on a Jimmy Garappolo trade, sources say. San Francisco would clear $25.5M in cap space if he's released by tomorrow's 4pm ET deadline. I'm also told John Lynch prefers not to face Jimmy G with the #Seahawks Week 2.
— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) August 29, 2022
As Schultz noted, San Francisco has not made any real progress toward trading Garoppolo. A recent report indicated that there simply may not be any teams that want him.
One of the reasons the Niners do not have much leverage is that rival teams probably do not believe they are going to keep Garoppolo on their roster as a backup. They have fully committed to Trey Lance, and they can save more than $25 million against the salary cap if they release Garoppolo before Tuesday afternoon.
The Seahawks will enter the 2022 season with Geno Smith as their starting quarterback. He beat out Drew Lock during the offseason. There had been talk all summer that they might try to upgrade, but you can understand why completing a deal with the 49ers would be a challenge.


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