US National Swine Flu Stats?

The population of Illinois is 12 million people, making it the 5th most populous state in the U.S. 3 million of those people live in Chicago (interestingly, I make up one of those 3 mil).

There 204 cases of the flu in Illinois. According to my calculations, that is .0017% of the population of Illinois.

Or, 1 in 600,000.

How can you call that high?

Also consider that Chicago is home to O'Hare Airport, the hub of the Midwest for the whole world.

The 5 most populous states in the U.S. are: California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois.

The 5 states with the highest incidences of Swine Flu are: California, Texas, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts.

Perhaps a more mystifying question is: What the hell is going on with Florida and Massachusetts?!

You know something else interesting? The odds of winning 10,000 dollars in the Mega Millions Lottery is also around 1 in 600,000.

Now if only that could be as contagious...

Seriously, the way people are acting towards it you'd swear the swine flu will cause a zombie outbreak. It has the same symptoms of any other flu and with more serious **** like AIDS/HIV and TB killing millions each year, we are worried about a new flu? If you want to look at a humorous yet true article on the swine flu, click the link i have provided. Read it and you will see evidence that this is overhyped media crap.

I am not sure about predictions.

I was curious as to why and think I found it after hours of pouring over news release from CDC,as well as items of interest collected at flu-trackers

This has to do with backlog of test. Before test are validated on websites or in media they go through CDC for testing also.