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>It is April, have we not been fools?
>
>Last year, didn?t more than 36,000 people die of the flu in the U.S.?
>
>Weren?t they, almost all, elderly or very young?
>
>Weren?t these victims, almost all, immune compromised?
>
>Had not the major source of their weakened immunity been drug side effects
>and vaccine-induced toxicity and autoimmunity?
>
>Why was there nearly no mention about this widespread mortality from flu in
>previous years, compared to SARS this year, which to date (April 16, 2003)
>has killed no one in America?>>
** Horowitz really misses the boat on this one. Compare how many people
contract a flu virus every year with the amount of deaths from flu viruses.
Then do the same with SARS.
According to FluWatch.com each year up to 40 million Americans develop
influenza and about 150,000 are hospitalized. The illness is associated with
20,000 to 40,000 deaths nationwide. Although the number of children, adults,
and seniors who get the flu varies from year to year, it's estimated that
during a typical flu season, 10 percent to 20 percent of the population
catches the disease.
If we use all the higher numbers (40 million infected, 40,000 died), this
is a mortality rate of one-tenth of one percent of those infected. Even
reducing the amount of infections to 20 million and keeping the deaths at
the high of 40,000, the mortality rate is only 0.2%.
I believe the stats on flu viruses are most often calculated using the
number of admissions to the hospital for flu compared to the number of
deaths.
Here are some SARS stats that are current to about 5 days ago:
Date Hong Kong Canada Singapore **China
April 19 18.2% 18.2% 13.8% 5.4%
April 18 17.6% 20.7% 15.0% 5.5%
April 17 19.3% 20.7% 14.2% 5.5%
April 16 19.2% 26.0% 13.3% 5.5%
April 15 18.7% 32.5% 13.3% 6.1%
April 14 17.0% 32.5% 12.5% 5.6%
April 12 14.0% 27.8% 10.5% 5.3%
April 11 15.9% 28.6% 10.5% 5.3%
April 10 16.3% 31.3% 10.7% 5.1%
** China's figures are very unreliable. This probably explains
the much lower mortality rate.
Regards,
Catherine
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