Someone who has had it wrote:
On the bad end, I am a HS Teacher/Coach. One freshman at my school did pass away from it. He was a perfectly healthy 14 yr old. He was at school on Wednesday and died on Saturday.
Halfman wrote:
How do you know he was "perfectly healthy"? Do you have a copy of his medical file? People who "die" from the flu don't actually die from the flu. They die from complications caused by the flu. They almost always have some sort of other health problem or a compromised immune system. You can't tell if someone is healthy just by looking at them.
Look, the guy was saying: that as best as one could tell, the kid had no underlying health problems. Also, they often do autopsies to determine if there were other health problems contributing. So far, as I earlier stated, 1/3 of the children who have died from swine flu so far had NO underlying health problems that contributed to their deaths. And to further demonstrate that this flu (in a somewhat similar manner, albeit on a much smaller scale so far, to the 1918 "Spanish Flu") can harm not just old people with weak immune systems, the CDC reported today that over 1/2 of the people hospitalized with h1n1 flu are under age 25 and under, and 90% of those who have died are under age 65. This is entirely different than normal flu stats.
And here is a story that shows that dumb it is for Bill Maher or Rush Limbaugh to tell pregnant women not to get vaccinated:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/health/20pregnant.html?em