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The CDC was cautiously optimistic in today’s teleconference that the rate of new H1N1 infections was beginning to decrease across the United States based on the numbers they are seeing from their surveillance systems.
Not everyone shares that optimism, however, as we learn from this report from Science Insider.
May 28, 2009
CDC Too Optimistic About Flu Peak?
On 26 May, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that the swine flu outbreak in the country might have crested. But Donald Olson, a New York City–based epidemiologist who runs the influenza monitoring project at the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), disagrees. “If New York City, Boston, and Seattle are indicators of what’s to come for the rest of the country, then we ain’t seen nothing yet,” says Olson.
Unlike many scientific debates, this is one that we should see some resolution to over the next few weeks.
If `we ain’t seen nothing yet’, then that should become readily apparent over the summer.
