i always love our updates from our wonderful pediatrician jay gordon on H1N1. because just when the media starts to creep under my skin and frighten me with swine flu statistics, i have a great calming email in my inbox from him on the topic. here is a snippet...
"The CDC released fatality data this past week and were quite clear in their assessment of this relatively non-virulent strain of influenza:
75-80% of the 76 children had significant or severe underlying medical problems.
Any child's death creates an extremely difficult public discussion but of the 300,000,000 Americans there are 45,000,000 children and teens and there have been 76 deaths of younger people. About 15 of these deaths occurred in seemingly healthy children and teens.
Please put all of these numbers in the proper perspective and realize that there are many important lifesaving topics for the media to publicize but none which sell papers and create TV viewership quite as well as this new flu."
read the entire message on his very informative website here.
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