Breaking news! Fumento exaggerates swine flu!

September 23, 2009  ·  Michael Fumento  ·  Weblog

Sorry, nobody's perfect.

In a previous blog I stated:

Here we see a graph line of doctor visits for people claiming to have "flu-like" symptoms. It's practically going straight up.

Right.

Then I added, "But here we see hospitalizations for confirmed cases of influenza broken down by age categories. The lines are essentially flat."

Wrong.

There was a better graph and chart providing numbers behind the graph that actually showed swine flu cases in U.S. had been decreasing.

Cases down; panic up. What's new?