Yup. You got the idea.
The human race could lose a heat or too just because the race track isn't
all too safe.
SARS just might have originated in hospitals.
ken
At 12:17 PM 4/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Here's a dilemma: IF hospitalization is needed and IF hospitals are breeding
grounds for resistant strains of germs - what then.
ed kasper lac santa cruz, ca.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ode Coyote [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CS>Fwd: SARS Quiz: Test Your Level of Intelligence
The question that counts is the comparative kill rate of SARS vs common
flu.
So far, about one in ten people don't survive SARS..and that with extreme
medical intervention.
If SARS becomes as common as common flu, does that amount to a 10%
population reduction?
If 3,600,000 people hit the emergency room ...just here in the USA ...and
go straight to intensive care every year..and survival depends on
respirators and such for a fair period of time, what then?
The death rate could be a LOT higher without treatment.
...AND SARS appears to be a lot more contagious. [sp?]
CONSERVATIVELY speaking... What if as many people come down with SARS as
comes down with flu every year? [Odds are that the numbers will be much
higher]
If 3,600 die of common flu, how many don't die? I'll bet the kill rate
is a lot less than 10%
How many people survive without medical intervention? I don't think they
know as virtually every case they know about, they know about because it
showed up in the hospital and was diagnosed...and was treated... with some
difficulty at that.
But the odds don't look good...maybe as 'bad' as 10%?
The danger has been much understated.
Back in the early 1900s was it? A mere flu reduced the populations of
several countries, including the USA, by 30%. No one wants to remember
those bad old days so you don't hear much about it...but it happened.
It's probably why WW1 ended when it did. Virtually everyone got too sick
to fight and that particular bug probably killed more soldiers than all the
gassing.
Ken
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