We’ve reached 4,000:
ATLANTA – Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu — about four times the estimate they’ve been using.
The new, higher figure was first reported by The New York Times. It includes deaths caused by complications related to swine flu, including pneumonia and bacterial infections.
Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had conservatively put the U.S. swine flu death count at more than 1,000. Officials said this week they’re working on an even more accurate calculation.
The CDC says “many millions” of Americans have caught the pandemic flu virus since it first appeared in April.
Where, exactly, is this heading ?
November 12th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Gotta take the new number with a grain of salt. It’s a modeled number, with statistical origins kinda like the modeled numbers for jobs saved or created.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Why am I utterly skeptical on these stats? Maybe gunshots are an “epidemic,” too? But, it is not unreasonable that government employees are off their numbers by four times. I would assume that is the case with the cost of “universal healthcare” too.