During a recent/habitual visit to my doctor, I posed the following:
“If I walked in here with Swine Flu, how would the government know that I had it?”
He explained that tests would be sent out and the testers report such things. But it still seemed like it would (since the Swine Flu is so similar symptomatically to any other flu and since nothing ever really works they way it’s supposed to) be difficult to get accurate numbers.
Now at least one official from the CDC is suggesting the same thing. Dr. Anne Schuchat, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Science and Public Health Program told NPR that number of H1N1 cases is probably closer to 100,000.
If nothing else, this stat gives me a good excuse for another doctor’s appointment.
More Swine Flu news here.
