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On Assessing Risk, Or, Swine Flu: Is It Time To Panic?
Washblog - Diaries —
... In an ordinary year, the CDC reports, about 36,000 people die from influenza in the United States (during the 1990s, the number varied from 17,000 to 52,000). ...
Equal Opportunity Flu in an Ageist World
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... There is, nonetheless, an age angle to this story, and it has to do with those garden-variety annual influenza outbreaks, and how the medical, political, and media establishments have handled them. The great majority of deaths caused each and every year by these “ordinary” flu viruses--some 36,000 on average in the United States alone, according to the CDC--are of people over 65 years old. Some years it’s more, and some years it’s fewer: During the 1990s, the number of deaths ranged from 17,000 to 54,000. But every year, tens of ...
Swine Flu: Path to Martial Law?
American Thinker —
... As a cataclysmic event demanding military assistance, it ranks near zero. It is doubtful whether swine flu could even be classified as an epidemic, much less a pandemic. Regular influenza, the common flu, kills 36,000 people every year. The 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50-100 million people worldwide over a period of two years, approximately one-third the population of Europe at that time. Global swine flu deaths topped just 1,000 ...
Swine Flu: The Mystery Epidemic
Hit & Run —
... I think this means the CDC does not really know how
many cases are swine flu and how many aren't. (The regular flu
kills many thousands of people every year.) ...
CDC Estimates 22 Million H1N1 Cases In US Between April And October
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The CDC released numbers on Nov. 11 that approximately 4,000 Americans likely have died from swine flu, which was four times more than conservative estimate they'd been using up until now. CDC numbers also show that about 36,000 Americans die of seasonal flu each year. ...
Cobbling Together a Crisis -- By: Michael Fumento
Articles on National Review Online —
... What’s truly unprecedented about this swine flu is its incredible mildness. The CDC estimates seasonal flu annually kills 36,000 Americans, again spread over four months. That compares to 4,000 swine-flu deaths in the current cycle. The seasonal-flu death rate therefore ranges from 0.06 percent to 0.24 percent, while the CDC estimate puts it at only 0.0182 percent for swine flu. So seasonal flu is three to twelve times deadlier per case. ...
