Posted on 11/11/2009 3:15:08 PM PST by OldDeckHand
ATLANTA – Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu — about four times the estimate they've been using.
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“And did they say how many intentional drownings there were?”
The ones that were proven were called murder!
You can get pleurisy after any virus, but it is a bacterial infection of the pleural cavity. It is way more often the result of not conquering pnuemonia quickly enough.
Why wouldn’t the doctor prescribe her anti-biotics?
I don’t live near my mom, and I wish I did.
A few days ago my local lib rag, The La Crosse (Wisc) Tribune headlined a big story about a local young boy who had supposedly died form the H1N1 virus. The next day or so they retracted the story, and the docs said it was not the pig flu. Looks like there’s quite a bit of disinformation and faulty diagnoses going on.
That 36,000 number of regular flu deaths per year was way wrong and it served the purpose of stopping panic with the Mexican outbreak.
The real number is not really known; CDC’s data collection is poor. But it was estimated to be at 10k to 15k when the spin cycle was over and the truth came out.
Sorry to hear you have the flu! Glad to hear you are feeling better. Most people have no problem moving through it fine.
But, don’t mess with it. If you have any sense of it moving into your lungs get to a doctor right away.
Seasonal flu is called “seasonal” for a reason. It typically starts in mid to late Nov. and peaks in Jan/Feb. Of course from now on out it will be difficult to determine which type of flu, but so far it has all been H1N1 - as that is all there is.
Although the H1N1 is killing mostly children and young adults rather than the seniors. So that is another way of keeping track.
They’ve been beating the pandemic drum for years now.
What is their end game? What do they hope to accomplish?
So it's official. More Americans have died from Obama's Flu than from Bush's War.
Can't say for sure but I'd start by looking into who the gummint contracted with to make the vaccine, how much we are paying them, and how much they contributed to the Undocumented Pres--ent's campaign.
I think I got to Dr in the nick of time. Had a fever over 103 - pain in lungs, pain all over. i was a zombie.
He listened to my lungs and checked my oxygen. No xray. Hmmmm I was only at an urgency care clinic...I bet he didn’t even have an xray but he did mention that he thought I didn’t have bronchial pneumonia.
Thank you for the info.....I think I’ll call my regular Dr. tomorrow.
I think we might have it here. My daughter has a sore throat and is getting congested. She’s supposed to get her H1N1 flu shot on Saturday.
Hopefully, it won’t be too bad for her, but she has asthma so I don’t know.
I wonder if they’ll give the shot if your daughter is already infected? They say you should start Tamiflu ASAP - like within 2 days of symptoms.
My daughter has asthma and was allowed a shot. That was a relief for me.
I guess if we were rats we would all be screaming that zero wants us all to die from lack of shots.
I will say the distribution of shots in San Jose has been a nightmare.
Instead of giving the shots to the doctors, they held a clinic open to everyone(insured, uninsured) who was quote “high-risk”, but they didn’t check to see if anyone was really high-risk.
We went to the clinic, and there were thousands of people there. They ran out of shots. We never even got in line.
I don’t understand how these people could get the shots before my daughter who is high risk and has insurance (and also is a legal US citizen because I am sure lots in the line were not.)
King County in Seattle did a better job from what I can tell. They had appointments rather than a free for all. Little kids and people with issues like our daughters got shots without too much trouble but people like me have to wait. At least I’ll be immune now and no more worries....once I’m fully over this.
My next door neighbor, who is a nurse, got it and she said 3 weeks later her voice still sounds funny....it doesn’t go away quickly.
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