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...question now on health officials' minds is: Will there be a second wave of cases in the new year? The answer depends on whom you ask. "We took an informal poll of about a dozen of some of the world's leading experts in influenza," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told reporters recently. "About half of them said, Yes, we think it's likely that we'll have another surge in cases. About half said, No, we think it's not likely. And one said, Flip a coin...
...Obesity has doubled in adults and tripled in children over the past couple of decades," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in response to the study during a briefing with reporters. "We still need to understand what the consequences of that are. Increased susceptibility to infection is one. Reduced respiratory reserve is another. But it's something we still need to learn more about...
...virus began spreading, millions of Americans have been infected, at least 20,000 have been hospitalized and 1,000 have died - including nearly 100 children. "To be basically in the peak of the flu season in October is extremely unusual," said Centers for Disease Control (CDC) head Thomas Frieden. "The numbers continue to increase...
...spring. Drug manufacturers have experienced setbacks growing the vaccine - instead of the 120 million doses the CDC had initially hoped to have by the end of October, the real number will likely be closer to 30 million. "Vaccine production is much less predictable than we wish," says Frieden. "We are nowhere near where we thought we'd be by now." (See a map of the spread of the H1N1 virus...
...created an epidemic of myth-spreading about the new vaccine (yes, it has been tested; no, it doesn't give you the flu). "It's a little bit of a messy process, and we expect it to be somewhat bumpy in the first few weeks," says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is collecting vaccine orders from states. But with manufacturers planning to release 20 million doses per week, it won't be long, he says, before the country's first mass-vaccination program in 33 years gets smoothly under...