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.
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?