According to NBC New York, the Vice President’s Office issued the following statement after the interview:

The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving all Americans: That they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico. If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways. This is the advice the vice president has given family members who are traveling by commercial airline this week. . .

My question: Considering that the regular ol’ flu kills annually around 250,000 people worldwide, and 30,000 or so just in the U.S., shouldn’t we always be in a state of panic? Or maybe, just maybe, is the problem that we’re blowing the whole swine flu thing out of proportion at this early stage?