US Stops Counting Flu Cases

[Guest guest]

If this is right where are all these stats that keep getting thrown around

coming from?

http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/news/09/us_stops_counting_flu_cases.html

2009 Oct 9

U.S. Stops Counting Flu Cases

MIKE STOBBE

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths

have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years. And they did it

on purpose. Government doctors stopped counting swine flu cases in July, when

they estimated more than 1 million were infected in this country. The number of

deaths has been sitting at more than 600 since early September. Health officials

had previously counted lab-confirmed cases, though the tally was skewed because

many people who got sick never were tested.

[Guest guest]

>>> If this is right where are all these stats that keep getting thrown around

coming from? <<<

The answer is in the article you cited. You have to read beyond the first

paragraph.

Kenny Navarro

Dallas