Swine flu victim in critical condition

From the NY Times:

A patient with a confirmed case of swine flu was in critical but stable condition on Friday at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan, a spokesman for the hospital said.

The spokesman, Jim Mandler, declined to reveal the identity, age or sex of the patient, who is being treated at the St. Luke’s campus in Morningside Heights, but he said that doctors were optimistic that the patient’s condition was improving.

That patient is one of 57 people who have been hospitalized with flu symptoms since the outbreak began in New York City in April, health department officials said.