Editor's Note: The article ran in The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13 issue.
An estimated 22 million Americans have been sickened with swine flu since April and 3,900 have died, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, as shipments of vaccine fell behind government predictions.
The sharply higher numbers of illnesses and deaths are the result of the CDC trying to better quantify the new H1N1 flu's impact, authorities said, and do not mean the disease has become more virulent. Most cases have been mild; of those sickened, 98,000 have been hospitalized, the CDC said.
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Great Interactive Graphic from WSJ.com on flu spread
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