2009 Nondemic update.

As I commented on in the earlier post of mine about this nondemic, it's becoming more interesting to follow the viral spread of fear than any actual influenza virus.


From the CDC's Press Briefing yesterday:
http://www.cdc.gov/media/transcripts/2009/t090504.htm


"There are 35 known hospitalizations in the United States with the one reported death. 62% of the confirmed cases are under 18 years of age. The World's Health Organization earlier today was reporting 898 cases in 18 countries.

"I like to each day put this in context with seasonal flu. With seasonal flu, we see in the United States over 30 million cases. We see 200,000 hospitalizations and, on average, 36,000 deaths.
"To put this in context, I keep saying that it's looking like it's along the severity of seasonal flu. We know that each year with seasonal flu, people are hospitalized and people die, and unfortunately, we expect here that with a virus of this severity that there will be ongoing hospitalizations and that there will be additional deaths. "