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SARS: Interesting Data
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 China reported that 19% of its cases were among healthcare workers, again the lowest percentage of any nation with a significant outbreak, excepting the United States. Vietnam reported that 57% of its cases were in healthcare workers. Canada had 43% of its cases in that group. The United States had a final total of 27 cases with no fatal cases. That’s less than half of the number that being reported for a long time, and one … Read entire article »
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SARS: Interesting Data
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 China reported that 19% of its cases were among healthcare workers, again the lowest percentage of any nation with a significant outbreak, excepting the United States. Vietnam reported that 57% of its cases were in healthcare workers. Canada had 43% of its cases in that group. The United States had a final total of 27 cases with no fatal cases. That’s less than half of the number that being reported for a long time, and one … Read entire article »
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SARS: Back in 2003?
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. SFgate Two colleagues who had close contact with Taiwan’s SARS-infected scientist are now in the United States, a health official said Thursday, as about 90 people in two countries were placed in quarantine. Singapore has ordered about 70 people to stay in isolation as a precaution, as were 22 people in Taiwan. Only the scientist has so far shown signs of the disease. The man’s colleagues went to Singapore with the researcher on Dec. 7 and later traveled to the United States, said Shih … Read entire article »
SARS: Redux
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 Taiwan By ANNIE HUANG, Associated Press Writer TAIPEI, Taiwan – The World Health Organization (news – web sites) has drastically lowered the number of reported SARS (news – web sites) cases in Taiwan in this year’s outbreak, after laboratory tests showed about half had other ailments. The recorded cases fell from 682 to 346, while the number killed by severe acute respiratory syndrome dropped to 37 from the earlier reported 84, according to the WHO Web site. Taiwan reduced by about a half the numbers it provided the Geneva-based U.N. agency after tests showed many of the cases reported during the February-June outbreak were not SARS, … Read entire article »
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SARS: Gone But Not Forgotten
COUNTRY DEATHS DEATHS + RECOVERIES DEATH RATE(DEATHS/(DEATHS+RECOVERIES) Communist China 348 5,289 6.6% Free China 84 591 14.2% Hong Kong 298 1,731 17.2% Singapore 32 204 15.7% Canada … Read entire article »
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Canada’s Pooch Squeals During Screwing
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 Toronto, appeared to have symptoms of SARS, and that prompted the quarantine call. One of the student’s parents worked at Toronto’s North York General Hospital, epicenter of the latest outbreak. “The risk of getting SARS in this kind of setting (a school) is very low,” said Dr. Murray McQuigge, a physician in the region where the high school is located. “We are not aware of any other student in this school who is symptomatic right now.” The Toronto … Read entire article »
Filed under: Canada, Commentary, Medicine, Mocking, Original writing, SARS
Communist China Still Lying About SARS
From the Times of London MEDICAL 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 a propaganda campaign calling for greater transparency, many officials continue to attempt cover-ups. China has almost 5,000 cases now and, if Sars spreads in the countryside, where modern medical facilities are not available, the epidemic may become impossible to contain. At the Infectious Disease Hospital in Baoding, in Hebei Province, staff began preparing for a WHO visit yesterday after notification from the Government. Police and security agents were on guard while staff undertook last-minute construction measures. One entrance … Read entire article »
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SARS, and a Little Yay, Me!
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 for their fuzzy math. … Read entire article »
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SARS: Pays Very Well
June 4th, 2003 | Comments Off
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 SARS that they get more money as well. Mr. Clement said the four hospitals, which have formed an alliance to combat the SARS outbreak, are a “special case.” “That has to be recognized as such and that has to be remunerated as such.” Nurses combating SARS have been particularly unhappy that agency temps brought in to help in the fight are being paid at a premium. The new hospital deal would pay nurses at the top end of the … Read entire article »
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