I had heard it was a very high number.
36,000 flu deaths per year must be an acceptable number since those deaths don't constitute a crisis or mass closings of schools, business and events?
Those 36,000 deaths reflect a fact of life. People die.
We do what we can to prevent it, and accept the reality of it.
I still haven’t heard of one actual death of a U.S. Citizen from the latest swine flu, involving a person that wasn’t seriously compromised to start with.