The blog Effect Measure argues that it is too early to write off the severity of this H1N1 influenza strain. The blogger notes that the most common “underlying medical condition” is asthma (30% of hospitalized adults and 33% of hospitalized children). And “we’re not talking about uncontrolled asthma. Just having asthma and having it mentioned in the medical record is enough to put you in the “underlying medical condition” category.”
COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY
The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of vital systems such as energy, transportation, communication and health is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.
