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Report Warns Swine Flu Could Fill Hospital Beds
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A national health advocacy group says more than 60,000 people in Illinois would be hospitalized in a swine flu outbreak if the virus behaves like one that caused a global epidemic in 1968.

Trust for America's Health released its report Thursday. The group warns 15 states could run out of empty hospital beds during the peak of a swine flu outbreak.

Illinois would use 73 percent of its hospital beds in the report's projections. The report assumes swine flu will be like the Hong Kong flu in 1968. That was the mildest global epidemic in the 20th century.

A grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported the report.

Since April, more than 400 Illinois residents have been hospitalized with swine flu. There have been 19 deaths from the virus in the state.

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