CDC raises estimates of H1N1 toll slightly
Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer
Apr 20, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday updated its estimates for the number of pandemic H1N1 illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths, adding another month of data and bumping up the totals slightly.
From April 2009 to Mar 13 of this year, the CDC estimates about 60 million people were infected with the pandemic H1N1 virus, about 270,000 were hospitalized, and about 12,270 died.
The totals reflect small increases in disease burden that are in line with very low levels of flu activity across most parts of the nation for the past several weeks. The new estimates add 1 million more infections, 5,000 more hospitalizations, and 270 more fatalities to the total since the agency’s Mar 12 update.
