New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics on the H1N1 flu strain show that fatalities and hospitalizations caused by the disease here in the United States over the past year never came close to the levels that the White House projected last summer could occur in the fall season of 2009 alone.
The CDC reported on Feb. 12 that an estimated 8,330 to 17,160 people have died from the virus in the U.S. since the H1N1 “swine flu” outbreak started in April 2009. In August, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published a report estimating that H1N1 could "cause between 30,000 and 90,000 deaths in the United States" in the fall of 2009.
The CDC reported that through Jan. 16 there had been between 183,000 and 378,000 H1N1-related hospitalizations in the United States. The PCAST report projected that there could be "as many as 1.8 million U.S. hospital admissions" as a result of the virus.
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But of course. That's Government.
Aren't the CDC the one's who provided the info. for the estimates?
Never happy, what if they didn't act and it took off. I would rather them be over-prepared instead of under-prepared like New Orleans.
It was a sham from thge beginning. H1N1 bs. Nothing but a seasonal flu occurence.
A good way to rob our tax funds to pay Big Pharma to beat the drum!
First off, the CDC stoped its assesment in July of 2009, well before the disease peaked - these are estimated numbers. Many cases were not laboratory confirmed after doctors had a good sense of what the disease presentation was.
And also, part of the reason fewer people died or were hospitalized was because of the fast response and vaccinations. Wow, I can't believe that we would tie a rapid and diffuse vaccination program with a decreased number of cases. Not everything in the world is an Obama-run conspiracy.
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