[quote=teatsonabull]Hey, Government….how’s that swine flu scare working out for ya? What have there been, like 8 deaths? 😉
Your buddies in Big Pharma sure did sell a lot of vaccine, though, huh? ;-)[/quote]
A few more than 8. According to the CDC, more than 11,000 have died in the US, with as many as 55 million contracting the virus.
Talk with virtually any hospital medical director around the county and they will confirm, the middle of November of ’09 was nervous time. At that time, most every tested flu symptom admission was H1N1, and otherwise healthy people were hitting ICU’s. Practically unheard of for our more common seasonal flus. And a good 3 months earlier than common seasonal flus. This was not your ordinary virus.
Then it went away. Just like researchers don’t fully understand why flus are seasonal, they don’t know why this one hit earlier than most, nor do they know if it will resurface in the spring as it did last year. Or next fall.
The preparation was appropriate, including the fastest development to market vaccine ever. Maybe even perfect. Even though for too many the vaccine arrived late.
