The decision to propose the additional vaccines, especially the one for the flu, was based on recommendations by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, according to Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, New Jersey's deputy commissioner of health and the state epidemiologist.
Most impressively, Google Flu Trends, an application that tracks users' "Googling" words associated with the flu, such as "flu symptoms", "flu remedies", and "flu vaccines", tightly matches the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) official flu tracking, which is based on Doctor and hospital survey data that have to be returned to and compiled by the CDC, with one major difference.
Environmental concentrations should therefore be the highest in Japan, with the calculated PEC value equal to PECsurfacewater_Japan = 0.028 µg l−1 where A = 2650 kg (Estimated volume during flu season 2004/2005 12 (Estimation is based on 30% pediatric dosage, 70% adult dosage and OP converted to OC), R = 0 (No removal), P = 127 417 2005(2005), V = 200 (Default) and D = 10 (Default).
In 2003, they counted winter deaths over a decade; this season's model is based on lab-confirmed flu hospitalizations.
Google Flu Trends was developed with the help of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is based on the number of search queries made about influenza.
The finding is based on the first-ever analysis of all flu deaths among children since the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System began tracking such cases in October 2004.
The estimate is based on testing plus telephone surveys in New York City and several other locales where the new flu has hit hard.
