A friend of mine says 3 of his 4 kids are home right now with "confirmed" H1N1. "confirmed" coming from him may just mean their GP said it was H1N1, not that there was a lab test result.

I don't pay much attention to local news but he says the tent-city treatment areas are back up at area hospitals, that the cases are real not just parents worries over the sniffles, and that sampling by the Health Department is showing that locally the vast majority of flu cases right now are H1N1 not seasonal. I haven't verified any of this but it will certainly keep me from any unnecessary doctor visits for a few weeks!

On the positive side, he says his kid's flu is mild as is every case whose parent he's talked to.