You can’t find the number because they are not tracking H1N1 cases. Apparently the real number of cases were not meeting CDC’s expectations and hype so they issued an edict to stop tracking. CBS, no less, reported here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/cbsnews_investigates/main5404829.shtml
Not only that, but I have been reading many firsthand reports at FR where a diagnosis of swine flu is being made -— WITHOUT testing.
How is swine flu to be distinguished from any garden-variety flu without testing?
Brian Wilson just said the declaration enables the people in place for first responders to get ready, like putting the infrastructure in place ahead of a hurricane making landfall. I don’t know how to cifer that for pig flu.
That is important information The CDC does not have any data to base any decree from the government on how serious or how harmless the flu is. They stopped testing for swine flu in July so they don’t have a base number of infections to know what the real death rate is.
Thanks — I was actually looking for ALL flu deaths, not just H1N1. I’d bet by the end of the year the annual deaths isn’t much out of line with the usual averages.
That would explain, though, why I couldn’t find any real numbers on the CDC site!