Iworryalot - BBC was better and far less scaremongering involved. Okay, 29 people have now dies but thats 29 out of 55,000. Earlier this week it was 17 out of 10,000 so I for one am far more reassured by that-it really does seem to be mild in most people.
I know this scary figure of 65,000 deaths is going to be all over the papers tomorrow but bear in mind that:
a)Its very much a hypothetical, upper, maximum limit used by governemt as a means to plan for worst case scenario
b)They've actually said 3,000 TO 65,000 but you'll just get "65,000 could die" in all the papers because lets face it, thats a far more sensational headline
c) Between 5,000 and 7,000 people die of ordinary flu each year in the UK.
d) In 1999-2000, a total of 21,000 people (young and old)died from flu in the UK. Whilst I appreciate that this is a new strain, I don't remember there being headlines like this over that particularly bad flu year.
Our irresponsible media is whipping this up a storm - far far more people are getting this than figures suggest and symptoms are either so mild that they're not bothering the doctor or they go on to make a full recovery.
(and I'm saying all this as an asthmatic who is almost 30 wks pg and had ordinary flu last year.)