How many new cases of swine flu appeared in recent days?
According to The Boston Globe, "12 new cases of the H3N2 strain were confirmed...
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How many new cases of swine flu appeared in recent days?
According to The Boston Globe, "12 new cases of the H3N2 strain were confirmed over the past week." The Washington Post agrees.
Reuters says there are "reports this week of nearly a dozen swine flu cases linked to attendance at fairs where sick pigs were present."
NPR reports...
"Swine flu rates declined for the fifth straight week, with the lowest number of reported hospitalizations and deaths in more than two months, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
That's Tom Randall's...
"Swine flu rates declined for the fifth straight week, with the lowest number of reported hospitalizations and deaths in more than two months, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
That's Tom Randall's Friday afternoon lede (update 2) on Bloomberg. So what happened to the swine flu vaccine? Do we still need it?
Randall takes a little too long to tell us, and what he says isn't entirely clear. There are 73 million doses of the vaccine "now available to the states, the CDC says," according to Randall. Meaning what, exactly? They're at the CDC? On the FedEx truck? In the dead letter office at the P.O.? The real question...
Should we get the swine flu vaccine?
This is a critically important question, particularly if swine flu ripens into the epidemic that public health authorities are warning us about.
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Should we get the swine flu vaccine?
This is a critically important question, particularly if swine flu ripens into the epidemic that public health authorities are warning us about.
So we look for coverage that helps us answer that question. We find creditable stories from many outlets, some of which has been noted here earlier by Charlie Petit. But there are other stories slipping into the news stream that raise concerns about reliability and accuracy.
Two themes caught my eye this morning: Stories about the dangers of vaccine preservatives; and others about health care workers refusing to take the vaccine.
In the first category, see a...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, gives us an insider's report on swine flu. He went and caught it while on assignment in Afghanistan....
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, gives us an insider's report on swine flu. He went and caught it while on assignment in Afghanistan.
Presumably Gupta didn't plan this, but his discussion of the illness with Anderson Cooper provided interesting insight into the illness and its symptoms. (Gupta expanded on his comments in a blog post on CNNhealth.com.)
Gupta and Cooper coughed and sputtered their way through the interview. In the course of the discussion, by satellite, Gupta more-or-less concluded that Cooper had swine flu, too.
I believe that's called telemedicine...
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