Another Rafonaut basically scared me into going to the doctor by mentioning the risk to pregnant women. 
I really hope you don't contract it at all, and if you should happen to, that it passes quickly and with no complications.
Also, yeah, those numbers are huge - can I ask what state you live in, and what the 65,000 number is a proportion of? (I mean, what the whole number of students would be.)
I really hope you don't contract it at all, and if you should happen to, that it passes quickly and with no complications. Also, yeah, those numbers are huge - can I ask what state you live in, and what the 65,000 number is a proportion of? (I mean, what the whole number of students would be.)I was actually on the fence about it for awhile, as I am naturally mistrustful of government agencies and "quick fixes" that have been crammed through the system. HOWEVER, I also believe in listening when the universe (or God, or guardian angels, or whatever you prefer) are trying to tell me something, and for several days just before I ended up getting vaccinated there were just too many coincidences to shrug off. Also, I have switched my ob/gyn now that I'm expecting my second child, and I REALLY like her and trust her judgment, and she has been asking all her patients to please get the vaccination. So, I did it.
As for the ratio of total students to ill students, I admit I have no clue what percentage 65,000 would be. I CAN tell you, however, that an elementary student in Okla City died from H1N1 on Monday, making 18 total deaths statewide thus far.
/Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 27/10/2009 11:29:51 PM
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It is raging here
- 27/10/2009 11:42:41 PM
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Good on you for getting vaccinated.
- 27/10/2009 11:58:06 PM
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I live in Oklahoma
- 29/10/2009 01:32:34 AM
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Get better soon!
- 27/10/2009 11:53:27 PM
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of course you can walk pippin!
- 28/10/2009 01:29:23 AM
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- 28/10/2009 01:31:52 AM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 28/10/2009 01:42:05 AM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 28/10/2009 01:48:58 AM
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I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
- 28/10/2009 03:26:26 AM
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Re: I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
- 28/10/2009 08:40:17 AM
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I think I've had it. Symptoms seemed to match, anyway.
- 28/10/2009 05:31:46 AM
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Odd.
- 28/10/2009 08:27:42 AM
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A final note on my experience with the flu (since all the rest is here).
- 30/10/2009 12:15:40 AM
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I feel I am getting ill this week
- 28/10/2009 08:45:33 AM
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Drink tea, eat oranges.
- 28/10/2009 08:54:44 AM
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- 28/10/2009 08:54:44 AM
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We've had 7 people die from it at my hospital.
- 28/10/2009 09:21:45 AM
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I suspect that working at a hospital gives you a rather biased sample of the populace. *NM*
- 29/10/2009 12:16:16 AM
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According to the CDC, on average 36,000 die from the flu each year in the US.
- 28/10/2009 01:53:35 PM
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Thank you, Greg. Finally, someone points out what it seems the general populace has forgotten!
- 30/10/2009 12:06:23 PM
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I think the worry is just that it's more contagious, which would be bad if a fiercer strain
- 30/10/2009 01:32:00 PM
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