Posted on 01/15/2010 10:11:23 PM PST by iowamark
New CDC Estimates Also Show 61 Million in U.S. Have Been Vaccinated
Jan. 15, 2010 -- The CDC estimates that 55 million Americans became sick with H1N1 swine flu between April and mid-December 2009 and roughly 11,000 people died of the disease.
These numbers represent a middle range in CDC estimates. The actual number of swine flu cases could be as low as 39 million and as high as 80 million cases during this time period, government officials say.
In addition:
* Between 173,000 and 362,000 Americans were hospitalized with H1N1 flu between April and mid-December. * Between 7,880 and 16,460 H1N1-related deaths occurred. * Roughly 1,200 children and teens, 8,600 adults under age 65, and 1,300 adults over 65 died from H1N1.
The figures were reported Friday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The report also included new figures on H1N1 vaccination coverage in the U.S. between October 2009, when the first vaccines became available, and December 2009.
By the end of December, an estimated 61 million people, or roughly 20% of the U.S. population, had been vaccinated.
Slightly less than one in three people in the initial target group received the vaccine. This included pregnant women, people living in households with babies under 6 months of age, children and adults ages 6 months to 24 years, and older adults with certain health conditions.
An estimated 29% of children and teens between the ages of 6 months and 18 years were vaccinated.
There is now plenty of vaccine, and the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) now has no restrictions on who should be vaccinated.
"Now that there is ample supply of vaccine, efforts should continue to improve vaccination coverage among persons in the initial target groups, as well as to offer vaccination to the rest of the U.S. population including those aged 65 and over," the report states.
Influenza activity has declined in the U.S. in recent weeks, but the report notes that cases of H1N1 flu, including life-threatening cases, are still occurring.
Among people who had not yet been vaccinated who responded to a survey conducted between Dec. 27, 2009, and Jan. 2, 2010, 11% said they definitely intended to be vaccinated and 22% said they probably would be vaccinated.
"The epidemiology of H1N1 influenza over the months ahead is unknown, but another rise in incidence, as occurred during the winter of the 1957-1958 pandemic, remains possible," the report notes. "Vaccination remains the best way to prevent influenza infection and influenza-related hospitalizations and deaths."
That was my first thought too. I don't know anybody personally that got it. Maybe I need to get out more.
The this was one weak flu epidemic. Normal flu kills more than that
I had it. I gargled with listerine. I lost it.
Nobody I know had it either.
I think they are full of it.
Ping to some really shaky statistics...(I’m not sure how they came up with those numbers, but I have no doubt at least one mucous membrane was involved.)
It knocked me for a loop for about three or four days. My fever spiked at 103.1 for about four hours the first night. After that, I had a couple of days where I had a bad cough and felt like I'd been run over. By the end of the week, I was feeling just fine.
And we saved the job of every one of those sicklings.
The this was one weak flu epidemic. Normal flu kills more than that
But thankfully dear leader declared a “medical national emergency” and was able to initiate a number of executive orders and legislative initiatives to limit our freedoms....
I know at least three people who got it and were tested and confirmed for it. And several other who had the flu, but weren’t tested.
I think the 1 in 6 number might be a little high but might also be realistic.
We know that the CDC website reporting was badly understated.
In Tn, the state was announcing cases and they weren’t showing up on the CDC site. And early on, places like NY City just quit counting and quit testing. Then the CDC made a general policy of not testing and not treating unless the person appeared hospital bound.
We know the CDC assumed that practically all of the flu was Swine Flu. But that was probably based on sufficient sampling and was therefore probably pretty accurate.
We also know the test was producing false negatives. That it only has 24 hour window in which it would give a valid positive result.
It still looks to me like the CDC did too little. They didn’t put forth the energy to close the borders when it might have helped. And then they threw their hands up and said open the schools and let it spread and run it’s course.
The article says 11,000 people died of the 55 million that came down with the H1N1 flu. I'd bet that hemorrhoids kills more people than that.
All but one in our big family had it. Our son almost died and was hospitalized due to H1N1. On its heals he caught another flu bug that again put him in even more grave condition because he had no reserve. Life has permanently changed because of this. Lord willing he will do more healing.
Glad you and yours were spared. It can be really ugly. Even our healthy daughter said it was like all other “bugs” she ever had all wrapped up into one flu.
I'd consider it just as likely that they did it to justify the fearmongering they did.
It still looks to me like the CDC did too little. They didn’t put forth the energy to close the borders when it might have helped. And then they threw their hands up and said open the schools and let it spread and run it’s course.
Did too little? For a disease that was fatal in 2/100 of 1 percent of the people thay say came down with it?
The “swine” flu was just a prop to bolster public favor for the government health care sting.
Mine were killing me last week.
‘Roids can kill??
ruh roh!
Or is it from ‘Roid Rage?
The CDC and the WHO wants really high figures so it looks as though not many fatalities for so many cases.
Without seroprevalance studies (I think that’s the right or sort of right term), they have absolutely no way of knowing how many had it.
I’ve also read plenty of cases having swine flu - tested - after vax, so IMO the vax missed the target (and if the D225G and/or N takes hold it’ll really miss the mark).
All the happy articles about “Yay, it’s over, it was nothing” are a bit premature.
Yeah, but you have to look at how much improved our nutrition and medical care is from prior epidemics of previous flu. And you have to consider that this flu didn’t pick of the elderly with complications like normal flu does. This one targeted our kids. That makes it worthy of a more robust response.
Mexico didn’t shut down their economy for no reason or because of some evil pact with Obama and the CDC. They shut down because doctors were seeing things that they hadn’t seen before.
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