Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | April 30, 2003
This just keeps getting better and better.
WHO lifted the travel ban based on there not being any new SARS cases in the last 20 days. Okey doaky. Let’s go to the facts. As of April 29, 2003, Health Canada has received reports of 346 probable or suspect cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 30, 2003
The Chinese Commies reported another 405 SARS cases yesterday, and their death rate is reported at 148/1470, or 10%. Worldwide death rate is 12.6%. Do you suppose their numbers are accurate? ROTFL.
Current WHO table through April 29, 2003 here. The U.S. is now five days behind in reporting. How come? Canada is 20/106, still 18.9% [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 29, 2003
Source: WHO
Country
Cumulative number of case(s)2
Number of new cases since last WHO update2
Final status/ Number of deaths
Final status/ Number recovered3
Local chain(s) of transmission4
Date of last report
Australia
4
0
0
3
None
28/Apr/2003
Brazil
2
0
0
2
None
24/Apr/2003
Bulgaria
1
0
0
0
None
24/Apr/2003
Canada
142
0
18
77
Yes
28/Apr/2003
China
2914
161
131
1299
Yes
27/Apr/2003
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region5
1557
30
138
710
Yes
28/Apr/2003
China, Taiwan
66
17
0
25
Yes
28/Apr/2003
France
5
0
0
1
None
21/Apr/2003
Germany
7
0
0
6
None
28/Apr/2003
India
1
0
0
1
None
21/Apr/2003
Indonesia
1
0
0
1
None
23/Apr/2003
Italy
8
4
0
3
None
28/Apr/2003
Japan
2
0
0
0
None
28/Apr/2003
Kuwait
1
0
0
1
None
20/Apr/2003
Malaysia
6
1
2
2
None
28/Apr/2003
Mongolia
5
0
0
3
None
26/Apr/2003
Philippines
4
0
2
1
None
28/Apr/2003
Republic of Ireland
1
0
0
1
None
24/Apr/2003
Romania
1
0
0
1
None
22/Apr/2003
Singapore
199
1
23
137
Yes
28/Apr/2003
South Africa
1
0
0
0
None
9/Apr/2003
Spain
1
0
0
1
None
24/Apr/2003
Sweden
3
0
0
2
None
23/Apr/2003
Switzerland
1
0
0
1
None
21/Apr/2003
Thailand
7
0
2
5
None
26/Apr/2003
United Kingdom
6
0
0
6
Yes
28/Apr/2003
United States
41
0
0
not available
Yes
25/Apr/2003
Viet Nam
63
0
5
53
None
28/Apr/2003
Total [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 28, 2003
From the Centers for Disease ControlThe majority of suspect and probable cases of SARS in the United States continue to be travel associated, with only limited secondary spread to contacts such as family members and HCWs. Toronto has been added to the list of areas with suspected or documented community transmission of SARS included in [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 28, 2003
Washington Times
Belgium, the only country that will be going straight to Hell, is considering whether or not to charge General Tommy Franks and other officers for war crimes in Iraq.
Belgium, a country full of Phlegms and Loons, raped and sodomized (and not in a good way) the Congo for centuries and never once managed to [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 24, 2003
My guess is that the spike in late March was the Commies in China owning up to some larger numbers. Notice that the number of new cases has been falling since about April 6.
Per the WHO, worldwide:
Dead: 263
Recovered: 2117
Death rate (dead/total of dead and recovered): 11 percent
Death rates for some of the larger epidemic areas:
Canada: [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 24, 2003
Yahoo News TORONTO (Reuters) - A health-care worker who is probably infected with the deadly SARS virus could have put hundreds of people at risk after he refused to obey a voluntary quarantine request and became “obnoxious” and “threatening,” Ontario health officials said on Monday.
The man, whose name officials did not disclose, should not [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 24, 2003
SARS does not appear as contagious as the Spanish Flu. SARS has just under 4000 cases in eight weeks, though you have to take the Communist Chinese figure with a large grain of salt. This source suggests the Flu was significantly more contagious, by orders of magnitude if I am interpreting the facts correctly.
The only [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 24, 2003
My guess is that the spike in late March was the Commies in china owning up to some larger numbers. Notice that the number of new cases has been falling since about April 6.
Per the WHO, worldwide:
Dead: 263
Recovered: 2117
Death rate (dead/total of dead and recovered): 11 percent
Death rates for some of the larger epidemic areas:
Canada: [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 22, 2003
Well, first of all, as I said earlier, freakin’ Chinese communists! They’ve been under-reporting their cases, and we knew it but didn’t expect the numbers they now show. And remember, they are STILL under-reporting, just not as bad.
It’s still just a mild outbreak compared, for example, to most flu years. Vastly higher numbers of people [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 22, 2003
St. Petersburg Times
The word “hero” is tossed around so casually these days that it has almost lost its meaning. Then comes the story of Army Sgt. Paul Smith, who reminds us what a real hero is. The 33-year-old soldier from Tampa was killed April 4 after valiantly fending off an Iraqi assault on his command [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 17, 2003
TOM DASCHLE may no longer call himself a Catholic. The Senate minority leader and the highest ranking Democrat in Washington has been sent a letter by his home diocese of Sioux Falls, sources in South Dakota have told The Weekly Standard, directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references [...]
Chuck Simmins | April 3, 2003
Despite extended supply lines and fatigue, the light blogging for tomorrow and Saturday will not be a pause. I have an annual EMS conference to attend, and will be busily cramming my brain with medical marvels and such. Hope to hear our local response to the whole SARS thingy, as well as the status of [...]
