U. S. News and World Report

“The number of states reporting widespread swine flu activity continued to decline this week — to 25 from a high of 48 just two weeks ago, a U.S. health official said Friday.

“Meanwhile, the supply of H1N1 swine flu vaccine continues to increase, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during an afternoon press conference.

“As of today there are 73 million doses of H1N1 vaccine available,” he said. “That’s twice the number that were available a month ago, [and] it’s 10 million more than last week, and we expect at least another 10 million doses in the coming week.”

…”Frieden said that all the data so far on the safety of the vaccine is “reassuring.”

“It’s impossible to predict whether the H1N1 swine flu will surge again during the winter and next spring, Frieden said.”

Source: U. S. News and World Report, December 4, 2009