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Old 08-25-2009, 01:43 AM   #1
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Default PCAST.gov estimates for fall/winter

full report here: (86 pages, .pdf)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/doc...1N1_Report.pdf
table of contents at page xvii
chapter summaries from pages 1,7,13,21,31,47,53,59 in text-form are here:
http://www.setbb.com/fluwiki2/viewto...=fluwiki2#1839

30%-50% (of the US-population) infected in fall or winter ,
20%-40% symptomatically infected (in fall or winter)
> more than 10%-20% will seek medical attention
> 1.8M hospital admissions
> up to 300000 ICU admissions
> 30000-90000 deaths
> start in early September,peak in mid October

assuming the clinical severeness will be the same in the fall as it was in the spring

PCAST H1N1-group members involve Palese,Webster,Fineberg,Lipsich (page xvi)
they call it "a plausible scenario (page viii), a planning scenario not a prediction"
However in the introduction they call it "estimates".
They don't provide their definition of these terms

I can't find (keyword search only, I didn't read the full report) any explanation why it should be
worse than e.g. Australia (population=20M)
who already have a full wave which seams to have peaked now.
With their numbers I calculate for USA 4000 deaths,100000 hospitalizations, 20000 ICU admissions,
Or with the NZ-numbers I get 1200 deaths
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Old 08-26-2009, 02:52 PM   #2
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Full report available here have at it I'm still reading HR 3200.... http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/doc...1N1_Report.pdf
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