I haven't forgotten about you, gentle readers, but I just got back to town after a week of vacation and it turns out there was this "swine flu" thing going on while I was gone and now I have to explain to everyone in the world why they probably don't have the flu and why they probably don't need tamiflu "just in case".
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There are a couple of things that Im getting over and over and over, from readers/friends/family/overheard in the grocery store, and its driving me nuts.
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OK, they're not cities, they are states. Or cities in states. Whatever. But when it comes to flu shots they are quite different. First benighted Mississippi:
It is Influenza Season in the Northern Hemisphere. So, this is a good time to talk about the flu.
You have to move fast these days to keep up with the flu. Or outrun it.
A quick roundup from the last 24:
Interesting.
Today is my first day back in the hospital after a week off, and after local university sent out a mass emailabout it's first "probable H1N1" case.
Needless to say the hospital is packed full of nervous, hungover college students being asked if they've had fevers by triage nurses and med students.
I'm at an international research conference in Florida. The organizers have been sending out daily bulletins about the swine flu status in this state and procedures for getting the meeting registration fee refunded if anyone decide to cancel due to H1N1. They also have masks available for attendees, but I'm happy to say that I haven't seen a single one being worn. The clinicians and researchers here are evidently a little more sanguine about the outbreak than the general population.