I think they are more case in California & Texas because of the border near Mexico.
Also The CDC are only testing the more severe cases ...
( They aren’t going to count the mild cases anymore the mayor says .... He said the city would be testing only severely ill people, because most of those hundreds of others can be assumed to be suffering from the virus and testing was not necessary )
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042802191.html
Swine Flu Expands to More New York Schools
Schools in Queens and Manhattan Struck by Virus; Hundreds Taken Ill
New York City remained the hardest hit, with now 45 confirmed cases and many more suspected. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) said the numbers likely include “hundreds” of students, staff members and family members from St. Francis Preparatory school in Queens who have become ill. He said the city would be testing only severely ill people, because most of those hundreds of others can be assumed to be suffering from the virus and testing was not necessary.
Students at St. Francis Prep, which has 2,700 students, told The Washington Post on Monday that hundreds of students had become ill and taken sick days last week. But only 45 students were tested specifically for swine flu and confirmed to be suffering from the virus.
You probably read about the first non-Mexico-visiting cases in Britain. The one man who has H1N1 spent literally 1/2 hour in a meeting with a woman who apparently was coming down with it and coughing. It does not take long.
So you imagine one of the students who was coming down with it but still ambulatory, coughing in a store, on the train or subway, in the elevator, etc. Each of those people exposed along her path could then infect others.
Keeping the infected OUT of circulation is important.
The Texas problem is that there are buses constantly driving back and forth to mexico. These people go back and forth all the time to visit relatives etc.
Also, many of them do not heed warning signs. I’ve posted before of a woman blatantly ignoring the closed signs on a park with a water area who said I can’t keep all these kids in the house, there were about 15 of them. She said we will just go to the hospital if we get sick. That’s the mentality that got so many killed in mexico and will spread here eventually if not already.