Schuchat said doctors recommend anyone hospitalized with 2009 H1N1 virus be given antiviral treatment, even if they are admitted more than 48 hours after the onsetof symptoms -- a period after which doctors had said the drug would not work well.
The two economists examined gross job creation and destruction in American manufacturing over the period 1972-93 and found that at the onsetof a recession job destruction increases, but it then falls below normal levels until well into the recovery.
The peak onsetof the flu just happened to coincide with a period when we have weakened our immune system and congregated in large gatherings to, among other things, disseminate disease.
If you don't count the losses in the crash against President Bush, and you just look at the seven years after the brief slowdown we had when the .com stocks crashed a little bit and the onsetof the crash in September 2008 -- just that seven-year period, there were 2.6 million private sector jobs.