Given that the geographically concentrated swine-flu related death toll is already over 81, this doesn't provide compelling evidence that 'most deaths will be from human response as opposed to the pandemic itself'.

TV news stations will of course hype this thing beyond all proportion, as they always do, but that doesn't mean the threat isn't real and that, as the article suggests, the death toll from Swine 'flu itself won't run into tens if not hundreds of millions.