Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Swine Flu Cases in U.S. Top 1 Million

			November 14, 2009 Log in / Register
			Text Size

'Daily Show': Hannity's Apocalyptic Apology

Marc Cooper on the Fate of Cesar Chavez's Dream

A Response From UFW to Marc Cooper

Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

A Response From UFW to Marc Cooper
By Marc Grossman

Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?
By David Sirota

Bring Them Home, Mr. President
By Eugene Robinson

Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace
By William Pfaff

This Day in Infamy: Gitmo’s Birthday

FDA Goes After Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages

Immigration Overhaul Campaign Takes Shape

Coming to America (to Be Tried for Terrorism)

Brown Pushes for NATO Troop Boost in Afghanistan

Bomb Kills 9, Wounds 50 at Pakistan Spy Agency

‘Left, Right & Center’: 9/11 Trial; Obama’s Afghani-Standoff

‘Daily Show’: Hannity’s Apocalyptic Apology

The Socialist Threat Comes to ‘South Park’

‘Daily Show’: Cold Busted, Sean Hannity

Marc Cooper on the Fate of Cesar Chavez’s Dream
By Marc Cooper

Art Market Gets a Boost from Sotheby’s, Warhol

Freedom’s Fight
Gary Phillips

Emma Thompson, Petition Tourist?

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Vetting Sarah Palin

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan

By James Mann
$18.45

Roll Over Che Guevara: Travels of a Radical Reporter

By Marc Cooper
$12.92

Baseball Cap

$15

Swine Flu Cases in U.S. Top 1 Million

Flickr / CarbonNYC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 1 million Americans have contracted swine flu this year. That figure dwarfs the 27,717 confirmed and probable U.S. cases, but it also means the odds of surviving the disease—127 people have died—are much better than previously thought.

BBC:

The CDC based its figures on surveys, rather than laboratory evidence, but the numbers suggest the death rate from swine flu is lower than thought.

“We’re saying that there have been at least a million cases of the new H1N1 virus so far this year in the United States,” said Anne Schuchat of the CDC.

“Reported cases are really just the tip of the iceberg.”

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: cdc disease flu h1n1 health pandemic swine flu

Related Entries

November 13, 2009 Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?
November 12, 2009 Happy 40th Sesame Street
November 12, 2009 U.S. Adult Cigarette Smoking Rate Rose in 2008
November 12, 2009 Testing Next Year’s Lies Today
November 12, 2009 Where Does the Caving End?

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Honduras' Leftist President Gets the Boot

Next item: Obama Overload?

Elsewhere: .

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By JayZee, June 29 at 4:57 pm #

The sides of the warehouse are busting out with flu vaccines.Please get in line and take the damn shot already!

We went through this with the bird flu scare/vaccine promotion.The powers that be keep re-selling it.The death associated with the swineflu is from the very harmful anti-viral drug.Please don’t take it.Really.

In memory of the last bird flu scare mongering: My favorite news report I recall was the ” Counterfeit Tamiflu from China Bust.”

CDC, FDA, ?? busted the import of counterfeit Tamiflu from China.They knew it was counterfeit because instead of the antiviral drug it was supposed to be - it contained just vitamin C and people actually got well.Hi Ho.

Curing the incurable.
http://www.amazon.com/Curing-Incurable-Vitamin-Infectious-Diseases/dp/1401069630

Report this

By FluWatcher2009, June 29 at 1:37 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

If the US has 1 million H1N1 cases (CDC’s estimate of almost 2 weeks ago - how many now?), then we’re being told one or more of the following: 1) a lot of people have chosen not to go to a doctor or medical facility and are not being tested, 2) a lot of cases are actually being misdiagnosed, 3) some H1N1 deaths are being attributed to other causes, and 4) some states are no longer updating their H1N1 records for the public.

No immunities to H1N1 indicates that the disease will spread rapidly…CDC’s estimates prove that it’s definitely doing that. If H1N1 mutates, as it’s showing signs of doing in Argentina, then this Fall may be a very difficult time for the US and other countries in the Northern Hemisphere.

Report this