SWINE FLU: 3 Major Concerns

#1: It is hovering during summer months, meaning it is likely to return in winter with a vengeance

#2: The locus of the infections are in schools

#3: H1N1 is modelling exactly as the 1918 infection unfolded. It started as a mild swine flu virus in 1916, and then came back in a succession of more and more deadly waves.

clipped from www.time.com Lancet researchers also estimated that a 12-week school closure could cost the U.S. as much as 6% of its GDP, and the burden would fall disproportionately on working families with few options for child care. The biggest question will be what to do about schools. Because the virus has struck the young at such unusually high levels — some 60% of the world's confirmed cases have occurred in people 18 or younger — schools have become a major locus of infection.