In a typical year 400 children under age 5 die from preventable poisonings
Also be advised that CDC counts all deaths up to age 18 as “childhood deaths”
Certainly it’s a sad event, but way too much media hype
True. Three kids have died in my county from H1N1. All had underlying health conditions.
not to mention that ~36000 people die of the non H1N1 flu a year in the US. If 100’s were dying a day of the H1N1, then I’d freely admit it’s an epidemic as I am fully aware of how powerful a flu virus can be. But it’s not at this point. I see the scare tactics as partly understandable but the media again is distorting the story. I just found out that the CDC, via CBS’s story, told states to stop testing for H1N1 back in JULY and that many of the cases of suspected H1N1 were false. In fact, very few of the cases were H1N1 at all. It’s akin to how the CDC labeled AIDS deaths to people who actually died because of the toxic meds they were RX’d and not due to the HIV at all. What it boils down to is the scientific community wanting research money and the best way to do that is to fabricate a fear to get fed $$$.