What happend to the "panic everyone" swine flu?

[RJUKL]

I have had a couple of head colds and two separate long lasting coughs but no sight nor sound of swine flu. After all the panic and the thousands spent on Tamiflu which was dished out willy nilly purely by a telephoned "diagnosis" it ended up a dead squib. There was no way that all the people who were given tamiflu without even being seen actually even had old fashioned flu. It seems that thousands took a few days off work on the basis of a phoned in sniffle which was diagnosed as swine flu. In addition this tamiflu had some unsettling effects on some who took it. This pantomime cost the country millions in terms of research, publicity, days lost working and media coverage etc etc. Has anyone actually been diagnosed that you know of. And has anyone you know actually died from it?

[Sqad]

jno........my point was....did this doctor friend have a throat swab to confirm H1N1 infection?

If he did....fine.
If he didn't.......then how do we know what your friends friend's doctor was suffering from.

It has nothing to do with trust, but everything to do with fact.