I just tried (but failed) to catch up with the news by listening to The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 10.00 p.m..
Twenty minutes into the broadcast and they were still banging on about the latest flu statistics, when a vaccine would be ready, government help lines, websites, etc., etc.
All of which could have been collapsed into a three-part list that would have taken less than 10 seconds to read out:
"There's more of it about, it's not very serious and a vaccine's on its way."
(See also What's the difference between a 'flu pandemic' and a 'flu epidemic'?)
