NHS Instructed to Plan For Up to 65,000 Swine Flu Deaths
July 17th, 2009Via: Medical news Today:
In a week that has seen the British swine flu death toll reach 29 and it is estimated that 55,000 people have caught the virus, hospitalizing 652 of them, the National Health Service (NHS) has received instructions to plan for the death toll reaching up to 65,000.
On Thursday, the UK’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, who is also the professional head of all medical staff in England, told the NHS to plan for between 19,000 and 65,000 swine flu deaths occuring this winter.
He stressed that the figures are not predictions but “worst case scenarios” to enable health authorities to plan. He explained that there haven’t been enough cases to produce proper estimates.
