Health officials Saturday confirmed six new cases at UD — up from four Friday — but said they stopped additional testing Thursday, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that swine flu was on the campus.
Instead, all patients with flu-like symptoms are treated now as if they have swine flu, receiving Tamiflu antiviral medication and other recovery guidelines.
Nationally, the CDC Saturday confirmed 160 cases — up from 141 Friday — in 21 states, not including the six new UD cases.
More than 500 students at UD have been treated for flu-like symptoms, Rattay said, but it is not known — nor will it ever be known — if all have swine flu because the specific testing for the virus stopped once the flu was identified on campus. The first UD cases were confirmed by the CDC Thursday.
“The numbers we’re receiving can be very deceiving,” Rattay said. “ ... Because we stopped testing ... we are not going to have an accurate count of how many have it.”
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If this is the National policy, we will only start seeing how widespread it is when they run out of Tamiflu. DW
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http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090503/HEALTH/905030357&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
“The numbers we’re receiving can be very deceiving,” Rattay said. “ ... Because we stopped testing ... we are not going to have an accurate count of how many have it.”<<<
I listened to the Las Vegas police scanner for much of the past 3 days.
There were too many to count, reports of people passed out all over town, on the streets, in cars driving down the street, it was amazing, all types of people, not drunks and dopers.
Heard a few that the medical dispatcher called “flu like symptoms” and there were Police Officers calling in sick.
It was in the news, at first, all of you will die and now it appears that they want us to think there is no danger.
It would be interesting to know who is behind the slowing down of the reports/numbers counted.
I had heard that we would not know how bad the attack was, until after the 10th, to give it time to spread and break out.