Friday, July 24, 2009

First defense against swine flu - forget the numbers

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-S...56N3PQ20090724

What's up with the CDC no longer reporting flu cases? Rather odd behavior for being in the middle of this pandemic situation don't you think?
One can only suppose they want no proof for number correlations.
Just take the shot like a good citizen because we said so.

Schuchat said H1N1 was still circulating.

"We are continuing to see transmission here in the United States in places like summer camps, some military academies and similar settings where people from different parts of the country come together," she said.

"I think this is very unusual to have this much transmission of influenza during the (summer) and I think it's a testament to how susceptible people are to this virus."

TIP OF THE ICEBERG

The CDC said 43,771 cases of H1N1 influenza had been officially confirmed, with 302 deaths.

"But ... that's really just the tip of the iceberg," Schuchat said. "We believe there have been well over 1 million cases of the new H1N1 virus so far in the United States."

She said the CDC would no longer report cases and was working on better ways to estimate how many people had been infected.