Swine Flu Infected 10% of New York City and 90,000 Could Die Nationwide
OMG PANIC! Panic! Panic!!!!!!
Thomas Frieden, the head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reveals that during the Spring in NYC "about 800,000 people—about 10% of New York City residents—got infected with the flu."
A scary report spearheaded by Dr. Harold Varmus and the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology predicts that the swine flu could potentially kill between 30,000 and 90,000 Americans in the coming months.
Panic some more at Gothamist