Government officials and news reporters are doing more to cause a panic than this virus will do to cause a pandemic…
[F]ar too few government officials and reporters are bothering to assure the public that this outbreak is no more deadly than the garden variety flu that kills over 36,000 Americans every year. And, even though it’s a new strain, the fact that over 99% of the people infected worldwide have recovered indicates that this Swine flu is no more likely to grow into a pandemic than SARS or the Avian flu.
[Swine flu causing more panic than pandemic, TIJ, April 28, 2009]
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