“I wonder if any of the reported victims who have lost their lives were not afflicted with H1N1, after all, but with something else...?”
Agree. Since no actual testing has been done since July, they must be pulling their phony diagnoses out of their butts. A crystal ball would provide prognoses just as reliable, I expect.
“they must be pulling their phony diagnoses out of their butts”
At our facility, testing for Type A and Type B influenza continues. The state lab is no longer confirming the subtype of flu because they were all coming back as the Mexican Swine Flu. The state still doing some random confirmations for statistical purposes and to monitor for other flu subtypes.
The cost for a confirmation of subtype costs about $300 and has never been routine in the past.