H1N1 tapering?

Hopefully the last week of "Swine Flu" or H1N1, will have tested all our emergency response plans and our own personal preparedness. Hopefully, it will go away. It appears, from various reports, that it may be tapering off. It was encouraging to read yesterday from a commentator that although this is spreading, it doesn't appear to be very deadly. OK, that makes it easier to handle. People get sick but mortality rates don't increase with exposure. Very good. Of course, the 1918 strain hit hardest the second wave, months after the first wave hit. It is apparent that the medical world will know use that interim time to prepare, study, and learn from the past.

From an article on MSNBC:

"We don't know for certain that this will end up being more severe than other seasonal flus that we have," Obama said. "And it's been noted, I think, before that you have over 36,000 people die on average every year from seasonal flus. You have 200,000 hospitalizations. It may turn out that H1N1 runs its course like ordinary flus, in which case we will have prepared and we won't need all these preparations."

Still, he said, Americans and people around the world have not built up immunity to this new flu strain, "So that's why we're taking it seriously."