I haven't forgotten about you, gentle readers, but I just got back to town after a week of vacation and it turns out there was this "swine flu" thing going on while I was gone and now I have to explain to everyone in the world why they probably don't have the flu and why they probably don't need tamiflu "just in case".
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Interesting.
Today is my first day back in the hospital after a week off, and after local university sent out a mass emailabout it's first "probable H1N1" case.
Needless to say the hospital is packed full of nervous, hungover college students being asked if they've had fevers by triage nurses and med students.
I'm at an international research conference in Florida. The organizers have been sending out daily bulletins about the swine flu status in this state and procedures for getting the meeting registration fee refunded if anyone decide to cancel due to H1N1. They also have masks available for attendees, but I'm happy to say that I haven't seen a single one being worn. The clinicians and researchers here are evidently a little more sanguine about the outbreak than the general population.