Who needs a national health care system? 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic much worse than thought.
Might be a good film to convince a Crazy Tea Party Uncle about the need for a national health care system.
Walking Dead is the most popular show on TV right now. Its about a zombie apocalypse which is silly. This movie could be real.
2009 Swine Flu Pandemic May Have Killed Ten Times As Many People As Originally Thought
BY SY MUKHERJEE ON NOVEMBER 27, 2013 AT 2:45 PM
The global H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009 may have killed ten times as many people — or somewhere between 123,000 to 203,000 throughout the world — than originally estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine and funded by the global health agency.
The WHO originally estimated that approximately 18,449 people died of swine flu over the course of the pandemic. But those estimates were based solely on swine flu cases that were definitively confirmed in labs, likely undershooting the flu’s true mortality rate.
“[A]s is the case with all influenza epidemics, the true mortality (death) burden from H1N1 is substantially higher than these figures indicate because only a minority of influenza-related deaths are definitively diagnosed by being confirmed in laboratory,” explained the researchers. “Many influenza-related deaths result from secondary bacterial infections or from exacerbation of preexisting chronic conditions, and are not recorded as related to influenza infection.”
The new study relied on data from 60 researchers across 26 countries and estimated the far higher swine flu mortality rate based on local respiratory-problem related deaths. The authors also note that their updated analysis may still be under-counting the total number of swine flu deaths because it only examined data from the first nine months of 2009 and excluded non-respiratory flu-related mortality.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/27/3002241/swine-flu-killed-times/
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship;
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Steven Soderbergh’s film Contagion came out a few months ago and was inexplicably and completely frozen out of the Oscar nominations. But it is the most plausible experience of a global pandemic plague you’re likely to see until the real thing strikes. With outstanding performances from an ensemble cast that includes Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Laurence Fishburne, Contagionis stark, beautiful in its own terrifying way, and all-too-believable.
The story tracks the swift progress of a deadly airborne virus from Hong Kong to Minneapolis and Tokyo to London — from a handful of peanuts to a credit card to the cough of a stranger on a subway. Rarely does a film issue such an inescapable invitation to think: it could happen; that could be us. What would we do?
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/03/01/the-risk-of-contagion-nation/
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