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July 16, 2010
The LIRR's New "Gap Rap" Disappointing Compared to Debut Swine Flu Effort
Because rapping is by far the best way to communicate a public service message, the Long Island Railroad -- which has had a number of people sustain injuries and/or die by falling into the gap between the platform and train despite signs and announcements warning them otherwise -- has a new r ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
Shad Roe Makes a Comeback; Cooking Schools Prey on the Unemployed
Smithfield Foods has posted its first quarterly profit since the swine flu outbreak more than a year ago led to a steep decline in sales. The Chinese and Russian ban on pork product imports may also soon be lifted. [Wall Street Journal] Marines can finally satisfy their hankering for the Ara ... More >>
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November 10, 2009
Low Turnout Means Plenty of Swine Flu Vaccine, Weekend Clinics
When everyone was worried about swine flu vaccine shortages, the city concentrated on getting schoolchildren immunized and discouraged "healthy, non-elderly adults" from getting shots. But at the last weekend clinics, the Times reported unexpectedly low turnout. Now the city, awash in vaccin ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Swine Flu Pet Scare Minimized, as Only the Pets Will Suffer
In the wake of yesterday's revelation that a cat in Iowa had swine flu, U.S. News & World Reports rushes to assure us, "Rest Easy. When It Comes to Swine Flu, Your Pet Is Safe." The experts they summon, however, hedge their bets alarmingly. "This really is not a practical issue at this point, ... More >>
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October 21, 2009
Swine Flu Vaccine PANIC: Do We Have Enough, and Will It Kill Us?
Swine flu vaccines will be in New York schools next week -- unless they run out: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius admits there's not enough to go around at present. "Demand is ahead of the yield," she says; Senator Joe Lieberman says there are 30 million doses available, as oppo ... More >>
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September 1, 2009
Hospital Boss Rips City's Swine Flu Prep
As CEO of MediSys Health Network, David Rosen runs four city hospitals, which gives him some room to talk about swine flu. And he says the city isn't doing shit to prepare for the anticipated second wave of H1N1 this fall. "We're a week away from schools reopening and there's been no discussion... ... More >>
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September 1, 2009
Bloomberg's New Swine Flu Plan: "Flu Centers," Sesame Street
We might call this "David Rosen gets action": Mayor Bloomberg has outlined the city's new plans to meet the swine flu threat. Along with free vaccinations for grade school students, the city will turn some of its medical clinics into "flu centers" at which citizens may obtain information and ... More >>
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August 31, 2009
CDC Says 10% of New York Caught Swine Flu; So Where's the PANIC?
We understand there is a difference between "counter-intuitive" and "bullshit," but we're not sure which applies to the Centers for Disease Control's claim that 800,000 New Yorkers caught swine flu this year. That's one-tenth of the city's population. We realize that many of the cases have been in ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
Get Ready for Swine Flu 2 with Dangerous Vaccines, Video Game
Those of us who remember the Swine Flu PANIC of '09 may be interested to learn from the Associated Press that "NYC schools prepare for 2nd outbreak of swine flu." These epidemics historically come in pairs, and the second is usually worse. AP mainly notes anecdotal portents -- "Sharing water ... More >>
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June 30, 2009
You May Want to Avoid Jens Lekman for the Next Week or So
Jens Lekman has the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu. Yeesh. Apparently, everyone's favorite Swedish chamber-pop/disco/folk singer contracted the virus while on tour in South America, and is recovering at home in Sweden. Lekman began feeling sick while flying home from Chile, told a flight atte ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
15th New York Swine Flu Victim, 11, Identified
After a series of anonymous swine flu victims were announced, the Daily News has revealed that one of them was Sarah Michel, 11-year-old sixth-grader at Intermediate School 609, aka Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice (pictured), an all-girls magnet school in Brooklyn. She reportedly was out ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
WHO Declares Level 6 Swine Flu PANICdemic; Fist Bumps Suggested
We seem to be experiencing a swine-flu comeback. After the assurances of the mayor and health commissioner that "underlying conditions" were behind the few deaths we'd seen in the city, things were pretty quiet for a while. Then we heard about an eighth death ("the first of a person older than 65") ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
Feel Sick? Swine Flu PANIC, Suggests Health Department
Last month, it's likely that more than half a million New Yorkers got swine flu and didn't even know it. Yesterday the New York Department of Health released a report finding that in May seven percent of New Yorkers experienced a flu-like illness. While this could merely suggest widespread PANIC, c ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
Swine Flu Kills 2, Maybe, in NY; "Underlying" Factors Again Cited; Mets Deny Infection
The Department of Health says two more New Yorkers may have died from swine flu. As usual, they're being tight with info, telling Reuters the unnamed victims "were in the 25-64 age range." Fox News, with its more aggressive reporters, nails that down to "mid-40s," but as with most of the local swin ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
11-Week-Old 5th Suspected Swine Flu Death in City
Oddly, after a few suspected swine flu deaths which were announced but whose victims remain unnamed, we learn that 11-week-old Steven Montañez is thought to have died from the virus this weekend. Both "the boy's family and an official close to his case" tell the Daily News the infant went unc ... More >>
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May 26, 2009
2 More Swine Flu Deaths; Schools Open, Close
Nine of the 23 city schools that were closed for suspected swine flu last week are reopening tomorrow -- but six more schools are closing in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Meanwhile two new presumed swine flu deaths in New York have been announced: in addition to Queens Assistant Principal Mitchell Wiener ... More >>
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May 20, 2009
Dead Toddler Appears Free of Swine Flu, But PANIC Persists
New York officials are saying that the 18-month-old whose death triggered a new round of swine flu PANIC, Jonathan Zamora of Queens, did not have swine flu, at least as determined by analysis of nasal swabs. To be extra sure they are sending tissue samples to the CDC. amNY reports that this announc ... More >>
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May 18, 2009
4 More Schools Close for Swine Flu
To the 11 schools that were recently closed due to suspected swine flu infection, you can add P.S. 209 and its special affiliate, P9, in Whitestone, P.S. 19 in Corona, and P.S. 32 in Flushing. New York State's swine flu case count is at 259, with 186 in the city. Oh, and there might be a new case in ... More >>
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May 17, 2009
Queens Assistant Principal with Swine Flu Dies; More Schools Close
Mitchell Wiener, the Assistant Principal of Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Queens who was reported critically ill with swine flu last week, has succumbed. He was 55 Though he was in a medically-induced coma and on a ventilator, his family held out hope as recently as this weekend because his c ... More >>
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May 15, 2009
The French Eat & Sleep More than the Rest of Us; Mexicans Try to Push Pork
The French spend more time eating and drinking than the rest of the world, according to a new study. Other findings include how the Turkish spend their free time: 35 percent of it is for entertaining friends; while Mexicans and the Japanese spend half their free time watching television. [CNN] For ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Queen Asst. Principal "Critically Ill" with Swine Flu; 3 Schools Close (UPDATE: 3 Schools Shut All Next Week)
Looks like it's time to PANIC again: a Queens assistant principal is reported "critically ill" with swine flu. The Times says the unidentified educator is on a respirator. Three Queens schools -- P.S. 5 in Elmhurst, Intermediate School 5 in Corona, and Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, aka the Susa ... More >>
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May 8, 2009
Statement about H1N1 Flu by Voice Editor Tony Ortega (UPDATED)
This morning, we received a report that one of our news interns may be ill with swine flu.This has not been confirmed, and we are currently trying to get more information about it. However, to be safe we have cautioned our employees and are having a cleaning crew scrub the entire office this evening ... More >>
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May 5, 2009
Happy Cinco De Mayo! Bloomberg Appointee Resigns After Slurring Mexicans
It's Cinco de Mayo, and while Mayor Mike Bloomberg is basking in (more!) endorsements from Mexican community leaders today, one of his appointees has just resigned over slurs she made against Mexicans. In response to the swine flu outbreak, Betsy Perry, a member of Bloomberg's prestigious Commissi ... More >>
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April 28, 2009
Your Morning Dose of Swine Flu Panic
You already know that we're all going to die of swine flu. But! Did you know that the World Health Organization -- sponsored by the U.N., which patriots normally deride and ignore unless they need to be scared -- has upgraded the pandemic threat level from 3 to 4? That means "sustained human to hu ... More >>
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April 27, 2009
Swine Flu in Queens, Elsewhere in U.S.; Mexico Death Toll Over 100
A sickness that people get from having direct contact with pigs has now spread to kids in New York. Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control confirmed that eight children at a Queens prep school have contracted swine flu, a strain of flu common in pigs and extremely rare in humans. Only twelve tota ... More >>
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April 27, 2009
New York Swine Flu Cases Up to 28; More Mexican Deaths
The CDC now has New York's new swine flu cases at 28. The Mayor confirms the news. The U.S. total is now 40. The outbreak is said to be affecting the stock market. The Times is taking reader questions about the virus, to be answered later by their health reporter Pam Belluck. Michigan may be added ... More >>

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