2nd Death in New York City Linked to Swine Flu

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Published May 24, 2009 at 7:40 p.m.
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Like the first New Yorker to die of the virus, the woman from Queens, who was in her 50s, had an underlying health condition ...

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Published May 4, 2009 at 6:34 p.m.

Secretary of State Clinton called in sick Monday, but it wasn’t H1N1 or swine flu or whatever the government is calling it lately ... Clinton “suffers from mild allergies” that were acting up, so she was resting up in New York and will be back at Foggy Bottom Tuesday, said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. “She’s just recovering from the allergies,” Wood said ... - Richard Sisk ...

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CITY CAN HANDLE 1 MIL ILL

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Published May 1, 2009 at 9:15 a.m.

The city can treat more than 1 million New Yorkers with drugs if the swine-flu outbreak gets much worse, officials said yesterday ... "Within hours, we could stock every hospital in New York City with enough Tamiflu to treat every severely ill ...

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