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CDC now says 4,000 swine flu deaths in US
AP via YahooNews ^
| 11/11/09
| Staff
Posted on 11/11/2009 3:15:08 PM PST by OldDeckHand
ATLANTA Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu about four times the estimate they've been using.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beveryafraid; cdc; deaths; fearmongering; flu; h1n1; influenza; nih; obama; obamathugs; swineflu
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I wonder how many people have died from the seasonal flu during the same period.
To: OldDeckHand
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:18:37 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: OldDeckHand
I live in CNY and I haven’t heard of any people dying around here from swine flu...wonder where they all live
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:18:37 PM PST
by
leenie312
To: OldDeckHand
And do we believe their statistics?
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:19:13 PM PST
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: mgstarr
I dunno about the status, but this mexican swine flu has not been the death generator they hoped for.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:20:33 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: OldDeckHand
HOW MANY DIED IN KATRINA??
I BLAME HUSSEIN!!
To: cripplecreek
PANOOTA*
[*Pull A Number Out Of The A$$]
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:21:18 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: DonaldC
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:21:22 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: OldDeckHand
It’s been a while since I’ve heard any reports on the “flu” but last I heard, it was 70 deaths.
Interesting how it’s gone up and not much of a peep from the news...not that it’d be true if it was reported.
I call BS
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:22:37 PM PST
by
Lucky9teen
(THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS ALL VETERANS!!!)
To: OldDeckHand
These stats are TOTAL GARBAGE! The CDC does not even test for this anymore so no one really knows. The normal flu kills something like 15,000 every year alone.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:23:26 PM PST
by
MrDem
(And this is a loyal lifelong Democrat saying this... Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
To: OldDeckHand
150 people die each day during regular flu season.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:23:47 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
To: OldDeckHand
Curously, the names of all those killed by swine flu appear identical to names on Acorn voter registration lists.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:24:58 PM PST
by
TChad
To: OldDeckHand
It includes deaths caused by complications related to swine flu, including pneumonia and bacterial infections.About time.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:25:37 PM PST
by
bgill
(The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
To: cripplecreek
According to the CDC's own website as of 11/06, only 672 have perished due the flu that have been
positively identified as flu victims. The report may be found
here.
Perhaps they're extrapolating estimates based on laboratory confirmed cases and recognizing only a certain percentages of flu cases are confirmed by laboratory tests.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:25:55 PM PST
by
OldDeckHand
(Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
To: MrDem
These stats are TOTAL GARBAGE! The CDC does not even test for this anymore so no one really knows. The normal flu kills something like 15,000 every year alone. The common figure for the regular flu is in excess of 30,000. But that too is an estimate. Impractical to test every or even a large fraction of deaths for the flu. What is done is normal moratality is plotted against mortality during the flu season.
But there is no doubt this flu is a killer. The stats are in for the Southern Hemisphere. Median age of death in Australia was 58. Normal flu is 81. Patients had to be airlifted because the country didn't have enough ECMO machines (some patients lungs were so full of snot they could not be put on mechanical ventilation lest their lungs explode--they needed an artifical lung...sometimes for weeks).
The fact is the death toll is being downplayed by the media because Obama and HSS botched vaccine deliveries. CT was supposed to get half a million doses by the end of Oct. It got 180,000. Imagine if Bush were president now. The media and liberals would be howling in rage.
To: OldDeckHand
I’m home with the swine flu. Had a temp of over 103 Monday, got Tamiflu, started getting better right away.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:32:32 PM PST
by
Aria
( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
To: OldDeckHand
and if that number doesn’t scare people into getting the vaccine, they’ll adjust the number upwards yet again..
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:33:14 PM PST
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(A moderate muslim is one who is simply buying time to reload..)
To: Brugmansian
"The fact is the death toll is being downplayed by the media because Obama and HSS botched vaccine deliveries. CT was supposed to get half a million doses by the end of Oct. It got 180,000. Imagine if Bush were president now. The media and liberals would be howling in rage. " I tend to agree with your assessment. I don't think this is anythings remotely close to 1918, but it's MUCH worse than SARS ever hoped to be. And, think of the pandemonium surrounding that debacle. The media is covering for Obama.
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:34:31 PM PST
by
OldDeckHand
(Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
To: OldDeckHand
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:34:49 PM PST
by
WellyP
To: OldDeckHand
Since every case of flu is being reported as swine flu how can they tell 4000 deaths have been specifically from H1N1?
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posted on
11/11/2009 3:36:56 PM PST
by
Train Collector
(Socialism only works until you run out of other people's money - Margaret Thatcher)
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