{"id":192223,"date":"2009-04-26T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/26\/my-take-on-swine-flu\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T04:14:00","slug":"my-take-on-swine-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/26\/my-take-on-swine-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"My Take on Swine Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is H1N1, a variant of the Spanish Influenza.<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t know the numbers from Mexico, only the numbers of those seriously ill, so we don&#8217;t really have mortality and serious illness percentages from them.<\/li>\n<li>The US numbers appear to show that it&#8217;s not so bad.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>It may become a pandemic, but if so, think Hong Kong Flu (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_kong_flu\">Influenza A virus subtype H3N2<\/a>) where the 1968-9 pandemic killed about 33,800 in the us, primarily among the old, very young, and immune compromised, not Spanish Influenza, where \u00bd-\u00be million died, and it hit the young and healthy hard through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cytokine_storm\">cytokine storms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Summer flu is not unknown, so don&#8217;t panic, but <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do<\/span> wash your hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order: It is H1N1, a variant of the Spanish Influenza. We don&#8217;t know the numbers from Mexico, only the numbers of those seriously ill, so we don&#8217;t really have mortality and serious illness percentages from them. The US numbers appear to show that it&#8217;s not so bad. It may become a pandemic, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}