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Swine Flu in the United States for November 7 2009

Swine Flu in the United States for November 7 2009

The CDC continues to release data on Fridays for the previous week. The data in this report is for the week ending November 7 and was released November 13, 2009. Visits to doctors for influenza like illness: second week that rates have declined. Now 6.7% and the seasonal baseline is 2.3%. Note, however, that many doctors are telling patients who call with ILI symptoms not to come in to the office unless it is serious. Hospitalizations for … Read entire article »

Filed under: Influenza, Medicine, Pandemic, Swine Flu

CBS Exclusive Report on H1N1 uses fake numbers?

CBS Exclusive Report on H1N1 uses fake numbers?

CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State Results Finds H1N1 Not As Prevalent As Feared Chuck Simmins states: I looked at the story and my jaw dropped. Without any research at all, I could tell something was wrong with their numbers. These numbers are supposed to be through late July, when the CDC asked the states to change their reporting. As we have shown in our prior reports, many of the states had ceased reporting case numbers long … Read entire article »

Filed under: Analysis, Influenza, Media, Old Media, Original writing, Pandemic, Reporting, Swine Flu

Swine flu update – October 6 2009

Just a brief summary of various closings and other news about the swine flu pandemic. 400 cases at West Virginia University 175 cases at Dartmouth Tucson charter school closed due to illness Cases in public schools near Tucson Catholic high school in Maryland closes due to illness Outbreak at school in Central Pennsylvania Watertown, NY area school with outbreak And, then there is this piece of crap from Communist China: CHINA reported its first death from swine flu on the mainland yesterday, an 18-year-old woman in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s capital Lhasa. The government said it was rushing tens of thousands of doses of flu vaccine to the western city. The woman in Maizhokunggar County in Lhasa died of the H1N1 virus at about 3:20am on Sunday at the county hospital. She was admitted the previous day after experiencing coughing, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Commentary, Influenza, Medicine, Original writing, Pandemic, Swine Flu

Pandemic swine flu beginning to surge in U.S.

Pandemic swine flu beginning to surge in U.S.

The official end of summer is this week along America’s North Shore and that means schools from pre-K to college level are in sessions. This also signals the expected second wave of pandemic influenza, pandemic swine flu. The CDC report on influenza and influenza like illnesses (ILI) is for the week ending September 12, 2009. Traveling across the northern tier of states, the New England region had a very low incidence of ILI from reporting doctors … Read entire article »

Filed under: Analysis, Influenza, Medicine, Original writing, Pandemic, Swine Flu