Your Daily, Gratuitous Swine Flu Update

By Marcus Gilmer in News on May 7, 2009 2:40PM

Now that state health officials are finally getting test results back, the number of "probable" cases of H1N1 Influenza A are switching to "confirmed," thus causing an explosion in the confirmed case category. This, however, is no reason to panic as it's just clearing the backlog of suspected cases and is not indicative of a shocking spread of the disease. There are now 225 confirmed cases of the swine flu, 93 in Chicago. Our favorite part? Now that the panic is over and people are shelving their face masks for next year's pandemic threat, the back-tracking begins. One parent whose child attends Kilmer Elementary in Rogers Park, the first school to close down after a suspected case, told the Tribune, "They shouldn't have closed the school in the first place." WBBM has a list of the CDC's new guidelines and one could easily retitle them, "What to do anytime someone gets sick."