I'm in the process of reading the article (low bandwidth means in completes badly against my husband watching something via Hulu...). I've read a fair bit on this, since I was pregnant and now have the wee miter and want very much to avoid letting her have either flu (since my son's in preschool, and my hisband works in a hospital, ours odds of picking up viruses are pretty good). So I did get the shot while pregnant, despite reading a variety of articles (in the Atlantic, Newsweek, various places) of both "protect yourself" and "it's overblown" and being more convinced by the "it's overblown" side. I suspect my husband may not get the shot; it's still not available for my son, and we've had 2 "confirmed" (diagnosed?) cases in the preschool so far.
I believe that CBS news also had a special comparing diagnosed H1N1 to lab test results that confirmed (or didn't) these diagnosis, and the higher confirmation rates were about 17% (in Florida), the rest being other flu and nonFlu viruses. I didn't see the whole show, but if you want me to try to track down the website it was on, let me know. Still, it just suggests to me more "it's complicated; don't panic; wash often" than anything else.
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randysmith) wrote2009-11-07 11:02 am
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I believe that CBS news also had a special comparing diagnosed H1N1 to lab test results that confirmed (or didn't) these diagnosis, and the higher confirmation rates were about 17% (in Florida), the rest being other flu and nonFlu viruses. I didn't see the whole show, but if you want me to try to track down the website it was on, let me know. Still, it just suggests to me more "it's complicated; don't panic; wash often" than anything else.
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For what it's worth, that's my sense too. But I like extra info, so I grab it when I can :-}.