From the NY Times:A second New York City resident, a woman from Queens in her 50s, has died from swine flu, the city’s health department said on Sunday.
Like the first New Yorker to die of the virus, an assistant principal at a Queens middle school, the woman had an underlying health condition that made her more at risk from the disease, Jessica Scaperotti, a health department spokeswoman, said.
Ms. Scaperotti declined to reveal any further details of the case, including the hospital where the woman had been treated. But she said that the woman died sometime over the past two days and that testing had confirmed that the woman had the H1N1 virus.
The number of people hospitalized with swine flu since the beginning of the outbreak in New York City at the end of April had risen to 94 on Sunday from 68 Saturday and 57 on Friday, health department officials said, suggesting that the rate of infection and hospitalization might be increasing.
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Underlying health problem my ass. They are trying to use that as to not panic the city. Don't believe the lies the city and the media are telling you.
The wife of the assistant principal who died insisted that he had no underlying conditions. Has it turned out that is not the case? And what "underlying conditions" would make a person more prone to more serious effects of swine flu? I can't believe these vague statements are reported as facts.
The assistant principal obesity was probably the more obvious underlying health condition. Who knows what else was there.
No, they were trying to say he had diabetes and that wasn't the case.
Who doesn't have, "underlying conditions", obesity, high-blood pressure, diabetes, emphysema, asthma, arteriosclerosis. Everyone in an urban environment over the age of 30 has one or more of these.
Who doesn't have, "underlying conditions", obesity, high-blood pressure, diabetes, emphysema, asthma, arteriosclerosis. Everyone in an urban environment over the age of 30 has one or more of these.
You must not get out much. I'm healthy, and everyone I know is healthy.
You just don't know yet.
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