Hello! I am a very appreciative friend of a friend who is very grateful for all the information you are compiling. That said, most of the anti vax people I talk to keep referring to this stat:
40,000 plus people die every year from regular old influenza...only 6,000 from H1N1
I can't seem to track its validity but they are clearly making a case that H1N1 is significantly less of a risk for death than any plain old flu any other year. Do you know where I can find data that would refute that?
Oh, yes. Because there is little or no immunity, barring vaccination, you can expect more people to catch it. If the two were equally deadly, but three times as many people caught pandemic flu, then you'd get at least three times as many corpses.
This one is the warm-up, and it's shown some of our weaknesses. With luck we can sort them out before evolution comes up with a strain of H5N1 avian that spreads well among people. That will be really scary.
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40,000 plus people die every year from regular old influenza...only 6,000 from H1N1
I can't seem to track its validity but they are clearly making a case that H1N1 is significantly less of a risk for death than any plain old flu any other year. Do you know where I can find data that would refute that?
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This one is the warm-up, and it's shown some of our weaknesses. With luck we can sort them out before evolution comes up with a strain of H5N1 avian that spreads well among people. That will be really scary.
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