Re: Who Died From Flu? (NY Review of Books)

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Original article: Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies!

May 12, 2011 Helen Epstein

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/flu-warning-beware-drug-com\

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damage was quite big, just do an estimate of the absenteism from work.

Why should it have been milder in Africa than elsewhere ?

Even in August 2009 the PCAST experts did estimate 60000 deaths

for USA.

We still don't know what happened in 1918, it's a similar virus,

who knows whether a similar thing might have happened or still may ?

H3N2 typically causes more deaths than H1N1.

I see no reason to doubt the CDC-estimates wrt. children deaths,

I do see no argument against it.

However wrt. mortality it was not much worse (if) than a normal season,

even if we consider that younger people did die.