Flu Season Winding Down / CDC

A friend put this article into HTML and added some links to the references. I think it is valuable background for understanding the letters case.

From the Baltimore Sun: A measure requiring further federal investigation into the 2001anthrax attack that killed five people was approved Thursday by the House of Representatives. It was proposed by two skeptics of a recently closed FBI probe that blamed the deadly attacks on Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the Army biodefense lab at Fort…

Real data is important, and anecdotes are just anecdotal. Yet during the past 3 weeks I have been personally involved with 3 events that have me concerned. I am a doctor on an island of 13,000 people, where hundreds received swine flu vaccine. Coincidence 1: several hours after getting the swine flu vaccine, a man…

Remember when Boston was locked down as a result of the Boston Marathon backpack bomber?  The cradle of liberty complied for a couple of days with extreme “stay in your home” orders.  Was this a trial balloon to see how the Patriots would react to government edits to “protect” them? Perhaps it is fitting that…

The map I previously posted disappeared off this website. However, WHO updates the map weekly. To see the current week’s map (and you may click to compare it with previous weeks) please go to the WHO site.

Using modelling to estimate the number of flu-related deaths makes a lot of sense when many of those who die are in nursing homes, not hospitalized, and not tested for flu. “Many are close to death, with flu being only one factor leading to their demise,” notes today’s Washington Post. I would expect that several…