Y'all remember h1n1 back in 2009/2010? Good times. 60M cases, 12K+ dead in the U.S. alone in less than a year. Remember all the blame being assigned prior to the development of a vaccine? Me neither. Maybe - just maybe - viruses are bastards that don't discriminate, don't have a political affiliation, and don't have a Country they call home. Maybe they just like to fuck shit up.
To calculate the burden of 2009 pandemic influenza A (pH1N1) in the United States, we extrapolated from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infections Program laboratory-confirmed hospitalizations across the entire United States, and then corrected for underreporting. From...
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