Some of you people are snarky about sick people not being tested or diagnosed with h1n1 but yet said to have it. You are being irrational.
It is a waste of money and medical resources to thoroughly diagnose h1n1. Every test would have to be sent away, costly, when most people would be well before the results were back.
The current Influenza A quick test (nasal swab) that all the doctors have is Useless!!! It has now been found to have a very very high false negative rate. It is wrong to give that test now, because people with h1n1 who get a negative result will spread it around more.
There is only one flu spreading like absolute wild fire in the US now. It makes total sense that at this point everyone with flu symptoms is considered to have it!!!!
If my kids have swine flu symptoms and I assume they have the flu when they really have a bacterial infection that should be treated with antibiotics I am endangering their health and the health of everyone they come in contact with.