It looks like NJ is going to be hard hit. If you live there, I'd purchase some medical supplies now, rather than when the infection rate is higher. Doing so will expose you less than when it's more prevalent.

"During testimony before the Assembly Health Committee this morning, Dr. Shelley Greenman, who works in the ER at Cooper University Hospital said “we are seeing unprecedented volumes of people coming into the emergency departments with flu – I’ve been in the ER for 21 years and frankly I’ve never seen anything like this… it’s really throwing people for a loop – they are really quite ill, and looking forward to being ill for about a week or so.”
[link to nj1015.com]

This echos similar findings that the national epidemic may be the worst in a decade, and hence surpassing the very bad concerns in 2009 with H1N1.