President Barack Obama used his weekly radio/You Tube address to tell Americans not to panic on the Swine Flu — to take a deep breath and not feel they have to run out and buy a face mask to do so:
The full text of Obama’s address is HERE as is the text of the GOP response address delivered by Kansas’ Rep. Lynn Jenkins. Jenkin’s remarks didn’t address the flu, but centered on blasting Obama’s and the Democrats’ spending.
Here are some links to some swine flu stories:
—Developments on swine flu worldwide
—Swine Flu Pandemic Still ‘Imminent,’ WHO Officer Says
–-Swine Flu Continues to Spread Across U.S.
—Swine Flu Vaccine Still Months Away
—AP: Worldwide flu cases top 700
—Swine Flu Hurting Mexican Economy
—Swine flu scare awakens echoes of fearsome 1918 flu epidemic that killed multitudes
—Gail Collins: Joe Biden, the Flu and You
—Asia Seeks to Stem Contagion as Swine Flu Spreads
–-Texas lab swamped with swine flu samples
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.