{"id":2978,"date":"2009-08-26T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2009-08-26T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:24:06","slug":"initial-swine-flu-forecasts-are-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/26\/initial-swine-flu-forecasts-are-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial swine flu forecasts are &#8220;suspect&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first official forecast that the global swine flu pandemic, expected to return to the USA this fall,\u00a0 could lead to <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/health\/swine-flu-could-infect-half-of-u-s-panel-estimates-1.1394964\" target=\"_blank\">two million people hospitalized and between 30,000 and 90,000 <\/a>deaths are &#8220;suspect&#8221; and\u00a0contribute to a &#8220;climate of scaremongering and shaky science,&#8221; claims <a href=\"http:\/\/sph.bu.edu\/index.php\/Recent-News\/insider\/index.php\/Recent-News\/insider\/index.php\/Recent-News\/Annas-Named-as-Warren-Distinguished-Professor-by-President-Brown\/practicum\/practiceweb\/ih\/Philippines\/index.php?option=com_sphdir&amp;id=239&amp;Itemid=340&amp;INDEX=12088\" target=\"_blank\">Al Ozonoff.<\/a>\u00a0 He is a School of Public Health associate professor of biostatistics who has researched real-time survillance systems for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Al Ozonoff, \u00a0(617) 638-5866, <a href=\"mailto:aozonoff@bu.edu\">aozonoff@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first official forecast that the global swine flu pandemic, expected to return to the USA this fall,\u00a0 could lead to two million people hospitalized and between 30,000 and 90,000 deaths are &#8220;suspect&#8221; and\u00a0contribute to a &#8220;climate of scaremongering and shaky science,&#8221; claims Al Ozonoff.\u00a0 He is a School of Public Health associate professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1643,861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}