WHO Final Statistical Report:
Communist China and Communist Vietnam had the lowest death rates of any nation with a significant outbreak, excepting the United States. 7% and 8% respectively. Compare that to Free China at 11%, Hong Kong at 17%, or Canada at 17%. Is anyone willing to accept the Communists’ numbers are anything near accurate?
Communist [...]

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No, not really. As I read the story, this is a researcher who got sloppy in the lab. He could still generate an outbreak but this is not SARS in the “wild”, just stupidity. AGAIN! Hard to understand the constant carelessness on the part of people working with this illness.

SFgateTwo colleagues who had close contact [...]

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Well, they’re still hashing out the last epidemic, and making correction. Free China has done the medical forensics and their numbers drop. WHO Lowers Reported SARS Cases in TaiwanBy ANNIE HUANG, Associated Press Writer
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The World Health Organization (news - web sites) has drastically lowered the number of reported SARS (news - web [...]

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COUNTRY
DEATHS
DEATHS + RECOVERIES
DEATH RATE(DEATHS/(DEATHS+RECOVERIES)

Communist China
348
5,289
6.6%

Free China [...]

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Judas H. Priest, I’m Astonished!
Earlier Wednesday, Mr. Clement said the government will cover the cost of doubling pay for health-care workers on SARS duty at four Toronto hospitals.
Mr. Clement said the government supports the move to increase compensation for front-line workers but did not endorse requests from other health workers in hospitals dealing with [...]

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More than 6,400 people, including 2,000 from the school, are now in quarantine in greater Toronto after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome resurfaced six days ago.
Before then, Toronto had thought it had beaten the disease — no new cases were reported from mid-April to mid-May.
Health officials said a student at the school, located just north of [...]

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From the Times of LondonMEDICAL staff sought to hoodwink World Health Organisation (WHO) officials during emergency inspections of hospitals outside Beijing yesterday, amid concern over the spread of Sars among 700 million poorly protected peasants.
China has promised full co-operation with the WHO after the country’s early attempts to hide the epidemic were exposed. But, despite [...]

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April 22 I blogged that the SARS death rate was about 11%. Finally, May 8 WHO says that, oops, the death rate is closer to 15% than the 4% it had been saying all along.
The death rate as of their May 8, 2003 report is 506/3564, or 14.6%, worldwide.
Yay, me! And shame on the WHO [...]

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From a CDC Briefing on 5-7-2003:DR. GERBERDING: Thank you. With respect to your second question about the situation in Taiwan, what happened there was that initially they did an excellent job of containing the first round of illness that appeared there, but unfortunately a traveler went to the country while ill and initiated a series [...]

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Courtesy of the World Health Org.

Country
Deaths/(Deaths+Recoveries)
Death Rate

Worldwide
495/3380
14.6%

Canada
22/115
19.1% thru May 6

Communist China
219/1706
12.8% keeps climbing, 159 new cases in last 24 hours

Hong Kong
204/1188
17.2%

Singapore
27/177
15.3%

United States
0/32
May 5 data

Free China has 125 cases, 9 in the last day, 11 deaths and 26 recoveries. I did not put them in the above table because it appears their outbreak is [...]

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Courtesy of the World Health Org.

Country
Deaths/(Deaths+Recoveries)
Death Rate

Worldwide
461/3225
14.3%

Canada
22/115
19.1% thru May 4

Communist China
206/1639
12.6% keeps climbing, 323 new cases in last 24 hours

Hong Kong
187/1117
16.7%

Singapore
26/175
14.9%

United States
0/26
7 new cases in last 2 days

Free China has 116 cases, 16 in the last day, 8 deaths and 25 recoveries. I did not put them in the above table because it [...]

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