[jyl]

Latest tally is that H1N1 flu has so far killed 10,000 people in the US.

Almost all of those killed so far - about 9,000 of the dead - are children and younger adults. In a normal flu year, seasonal flu will kill less than 1,000 children and younger adults.

Very few older people have died from H1N1 flu so far. Seasonal flu normally kills about 34,000 older people a year.

If you go by number of years of future life erased, H1N1 is probably already worse than seasonal flu.

So far, 1 in 6 Americans have been infected with swine flu. Now the seasonal flu period is starting. I don't think we know if H1N1 keeps going strong alonside seasonal flu, fades away for the year, or comes back in another wave later in winter.

None of my family have gotten a H1N1 vaccination. My daughter and son got the flu before the vaccine was available, they probably had H1N1. My wife and I didn't get sick. Even so, I'm planning to get the H1N1 vaccination.