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The swine strain of the influenza virus is not observing the calendar. NBC's Robert Bazell updated us on Friday: "It does look a lot more like the middle of winter than the middle of May." Now the in-house physicians at CBS and ABC are filling us in with conflicting assessments. Jon LaPook at CBS offered the nationwide statistics that six patients have died out of 5,123 infections. "In a typical 'flu season about one in 1,000 people die from the virus." That led him to conclude that the H1N1 strain is average in its severity. On ABC, Timothy Johnson disagreed: "The cases are mild; hospitalizations are rare; deaths are extremely rare." The good doctors agreed on one thing--and with NBC's Bazell. This 'flu is lingering unusually late into the spring.
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