Email Friend | Print Article | | Share Share

January 23, 2010

Graph of the Day for January 23, 2010

Randall Hoven
"Hidden within the latest edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FluView was this sentence: ‘The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was below the epidemic threshold.'  That's right: The great American swine flu epidemic - which led to two proclaimed national emergencies and thousands of spooky news stories - has ended with a whimper."  Michael Fumento.


Source:  CDC.


Hoven's Index for January 23, 2010


Number of hospitalizations due to flu from August 30, 2009 to January 9, 2010:  38,454.

Number of deaths due to flu over that time period:  1,779.

Source:  CDC.


Deaths due to the "Spanish" flu of 1918:  50 million to 100 million.

Source:  CDC.


Graph of the Day Archive.