Originally Posted By: Susan
Now, I'm not in the medical field, but how does this compute to a pandemic?


First, your numbers quote HOSPITALIZED patients. The mortality is even lower, across the board, since not everyone with flu gets put in the hospital.

A pandemic merely refers to geographic distribution, NOT mortality of a disease. In other words, swine flu is in many countries, around the world. But then, so is syphilis, TB, HIV... etc.