more important - if you want to go to the CDC site and look up influenza deaths - oh lets just limit it to the first 11 weeks this year - in NYC alone there has been an average of 60 deaths a WEEK from pneumonia and influenza (the CDC always combines these) - so about 650 deaths this year just in that one city - and yet even right on their website they say that there is no human transmission vehicle for the avain flu yet - "although this could always change" (sure it could have changed since 1870 when it was first discovered to)
Then in their recent press conferences - an amazing thing happened - they pulled their support for the two most common flu/influenza immunizations that US citizens have been getting for years - saying that they are not effective anymore and that everyone needs to switch to Tamiflu for proper protection - give me a break
Look into the department we're talking about here - the CDC is part of the HHS run by this guy
"Prior to joining HHS, Azar was a partner with the Washington law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where he specialized in litigation and appellate practice involving white collar criminal defense and internal investigations, congressional investigations, government ethics, administrative law, and employment counseling.
Azar also served as an Associate Independent Counsel during the first two years of the Whitewater investigation under Judge
Kenneth Starr. Prior to that, he was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., where he was involved in litigation and appellate matters"
He was also responsible for the 450 investigators that tracked down the anthrax attack following 9/11 - did a real hot job there too