Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-preparing-for-resurgence-of-h1n1-flu Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Amid predictions of a new H1N1 swine flu outbreak, health officials warn that children going back to school are especially at risk. Gwen Ifill talks to Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: And still to come on the NewsHour tonight: fighting malaria in Cambodia; and weighing in on the economy and more.But first, as millions of school children head back to class this week, their backpacks will be stuffed with notebooks, pencils, and hand sanitizer. While the nation braces for a new outbreak of the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, students and adults are learning all over again how to wash their hands.The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reports children and young people are at special risk for infections, expected to peak in mid-October. Its scenario: up to half the U.S. population could be infected; 1.8 million Americans might require hospitalization, 300,000 of them in intensive care; and for 30,000 to 90,000 people, the disease could be fatal.Only 36,000, most of them elderly, die from the conventional flu each year.For more, I'm joined by Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Welcome. DR. ANNE SCHUCHAT: Thank you. GWEN IFILL: Do those numbers sound right to you, 60 million to 120 million infections, 30,000 to 90,000 of them fatal? DR. ANNE SCHUCHAT: You know, the PCAST advisers offered a planning scenario that was really meant to be used to take this seriously so that states and local health departments, the private sector, the public would be aware that things could be quite challenging.But we really can't predict exactly how much disease there's going to be this fall and winter. I can say we're working hard to be prepared and ready to respond.