If you listen to the media or God love him Joe Biden, there's not going to be much left 28 days later.

But what have we really learned so far? Swine flu seems to be spreading, but not a lot of people seem to be dying. In fact, the World Health Organization has downgraded the number of deaths in Mexico from 168 to 16. That's a big difference seeing how we were all so afraid of swine flu (aka the H1N1 virus) primarily BECAUSE OF the mortality rate in Mexico.

There has been one confirmed death of swine virus in America - a Mexican toddler that was visiting the U.S. Any death is a tragedy, but as far as the flu goes, this one has not yet reached the deadliness of the seasonal flu. On average, 200,000 Americans are hospitalized with the seasonal flu every year and 36,000 die (Source). So if last week was an average week, close to 700 people died of the seasonal flu, 1 of the swine flu.

We don't have a large enough sample size to know if swine flu is more likely to kill you once you contract it than the seasonal flu. Given the low incidents and initial mortality rates though, one thing is becoming clear at this point. Statistically you are MUCH more likely to die today from seasonal flu than from swine flu. And probably more likely to die in a car wreck than either of those.