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The Real Story Behind The Flu Numbers

  • November 03, 2004

Last week, I wrote about the quick backtracking from federal officials about the need for most healthy Americans to be vaccinated for the flu. I'm still disturbed by the "scarcity mentality" I've observed over the past few weeks, fed largely part by an electronic media starving for news. If you want to pin it down to a sound bite, consider the way too familiar "killer statistic:" The flu's average annual death toll in the United States is 36,000. But if you once again remember last...