Oct 26th, 2009 - MedPage Today
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President Barack Obama's declaration that the H1N1 pandemic flu is a national emergency doesn't mean the course of the outbreak has changed, health experts said.
But as the volume of cases increases, the declaration allows doctors and hospitals more flexibility in handling the expected surge in patients, they said.
"I would caution against the idea that there has been any great change for the worse," said Sandro Cinti, MD, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
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