Is It Really A "National Emergency," Mr. President?
October 25, 2009 — JesseBut precisely how deadly, or even how infectious, this year’s H1N1 pandemic will turn out to be won’t be known until it’s over. … But while vaccines for, say, whooping cough and polio clearly and dramatically reduced death rates from those diseases, the impact of flu vaccine has been harder t o determine….Determining how many deaths it really causes, or even who has it, is no simple matter. … In August, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology projected that this fall and winter, the swine flu, H1N1, could infect anywhere between o…In reality, as of noon today, the Australian Department of Health and Ageing reports that Australia has had 35,775 confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1
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Is It Really A "National Emergency," Mr. President?