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One 'Flu over the Cuckoo's nest
Far be it from us to compare those having charge of the Nation's Health with birds of rather limited intelligence and rapacious behaviour, because after the absence of any advertising campaign for influenza immunisation, the drying up of supplies of the immunisation, and the inundation of Intensive Care Units all over the country with cases of H1N1, our Lawyers advise us that were we to do so, we would be inundated with lawsuits brought by affronted Cuckoos. If only the politicians had read Thorax, they would have had early warning from our Hot off the Breath alert and could have taken some action (Thorax 2010;65:855–6). We reflect the importance of H1N1 in five manuscripts published this month. Bewick et al report on a clinical score based on five simple parameters; a high score is strongly predictive of H1N1, a low score has a good negative predictive value. Clearly this needs to be validated in a …
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