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Politics : Swine Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Kern who wrote (204)	5/19/2009 11:12:41 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 463

Here's the online NYTimes version of the story of that death. ------------------------------------ City Room - Blogging From the Five Boroughs May 19, 2009, 10:52 am Toddler’s Death Stokes Flu Concerns By Sewell Chan New York City health authorities are investigating the death of a 16-month-old toddler as a possible case of swine flu. The boy, identified as Jonathan Zamora, of Corona, Queens, died Monday night at Elmhurst Hospital Center after being brought in with high fever and “severe flulike symptoms,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Tuesday morning. The child’s 3-year-old brother, who was also brought into the hospital, was treated and released, the mayor said. In addition, the mayor announced that there were four confirmed and four probable cases of swine flu at Rikers Island, the city’s jail complex. On Sunday, an assistant principal at a Queens public school, Mitchell Wiener, became the city’s first swine flu death. It was not clear whether the child who died Monday night had any underlying health issues. “Every parent in the city, myself included, can appreciate the grief the parents of these children are experiencing,” the mayor said of Jonathan’s parents. “We don’t yet know if the child who died had contracted the H1N1 virus. Tests will be performed at the city’s Health Department lab to investigate that question.” In a suggestion that the city was concerned that residents without health insurance and undocumented immigrants might be hesitant to come to hospital rooms, the mayor emphasized that neither factor should hinder anyone ill from seeking treatment. “Whether you have health insurance coverage or your immigration status is in question, it doesn’t matter,” the mayor said. “We will not ask about tat. I don’t know and don’t care what the immigration status was of the children in question.” The union representing the city’s correctional officers issued a statement on Tuesday morning criticizing the response to the swine-flu outbreak among inmates, and suggested that inmates be temporarily relocated to other facilities. The union, the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, has scheduled a 12:30 p.m. news conference. In his news conference, the mayor rejected the idea of relocating the inmates. “Correction and health officials are monitoring the situation and preparing to implement additional inmate screening and, where needed, isolation of ill inmates,” the mayor said. “It is in some senses easier to control because, obviously, the prisoners can’t leave. On the other hand, it is also a confined area where we really don’t have the choice of moving people out and asking them to stay home The situation in the schools if you think about it, is exactly the reverse.” Asked about the call by Norman I. Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, for inmates to be relocated, the mayor turned a bit testy. “If he’s an epidemiologist, it’s the first time I heard, but I’ll be happy to listen to him,” the mayor said. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com