Table 3. Illness outcomes for persons reported influenza–like illness, New South Wales, Australia, July–September 2009*.

Outcome	Estimated no. persons, millions (95% CI)†	Proportion, % (95% CI)
No. days unable to do usual activities
0–3	0.83 (0.67–1.00)	51.3 (41.4–61.1)
4–7	0.60 (0.44–0.76)	36.7 (26.9–46.5)
>7	0.20 (0.09–0.30)	12.0 (5.7–18.4)
Type of health care sought
General practice	0.90 (0.74–1.06)	55.4 (45.5-65.2)
Hospital	0.08 (0.02–0.15	5.2 (1.3–9.2)
General practice and hospital‡	0.04 (0.01–0.07	2.3 (0.5–4.1)
Neither general practice nor hospital	0.68 (0.53–0.83)	41.7 (32.3–51.1)

*CI, confidence interval.
†The estimated numbers were obtained by applying the proportions and 95% CIs in this table to the estimated 1.63 million persons with influenza–like illness (Table 1). Standard errors of that estimate were ignored.
‡Because this category overlaps the 2 categories above, total is not 100%.