Replies to post #106394 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[brainlessone]

edit there are 2,500,000,000 chinese. there are 4000 chinese with sars. there are 140 sars deaths

that is like 16000000 to one. that is 1/1000 of your chance of dying by outboard motor in the united states

actual data:

From: 1 Nov 2002 To: 8 May 2003, 18:00 GMT+2

Country: Cumulative no. case(s) (1)/ no. new cases since last WHO update
(1)/ no. deaths/ No. recovered (2)/ date last probable case reported/ date
for which cumulative no. of cases is current

Australia: 4/ 0/ 0/ 4/ 23/Apr/2003/ 6/May/2003
Brazil: 2/ 0/ 0/ 2/ 10/Apr/2003/ 24/Apr/2003
Bulgaria: 1/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 24/Apr/2003/ 28/Apr/2003
Canada: 146/ 0/ 22/ 95/ 4/May/2003/ 7/May/2003
China: 4698/ 146/ 224/ 1529/ 8/May/2003/ 8/May/2003
China, Hong Kong
SAR(3): 1661/ 7/ 208/ 1008/ 8/May/2003/ 8/May/2003
China, Macao SAR: 1/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 30/Apr/2003/ 5/May/2003
China, Taiwan: 131/ 6/ 13/ 26/ 8/May/2003/ 8/May/2003
Colombia: 1/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 5/May/2003/ 5/May/2003
Finland: 1/ 1/ 0/ 0/ 7/May/2003/ 7/May/2003
France: 6/ 0/ 0/ 4/ 6/May/2003/ 6/May/2003
Germany: 8/ 0/ 0/ 7/ 7/May/2003/ 7/May/2003
India: 1/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 5/May/2003/ 5/May/2003
Indonesia: 2/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 23/Apr/2003/ 6/May/2003
Italy: 9/ 0/ 0/ 6/ 29/Apr/2003/ 8/May/2003
Kuwait: 1/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 9/Apr/2003/ 20/Apr/2003
Malaysia: 7/ 0/ 2/ 4/ 4/May/2003/ 7/May/2003
Mongolia: 9/ 0/ 0/ 6/ 6/May/2003/ 6/May/2003
New Zealand: 1/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 30/Apr/2003/ 8/May/2003
Philippines: 10/ 0/ 2/ 2/ 7/May/2003/ 7/May/2003
Poland: 1/ 0/ 0/ 0/ 1/May/2003/ 5/May/2003
Republic of Ireland: 1/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 21/Mar/2003/ 6/May/2003
Republic of Korea 1 0 0 1 29/Apr/2003 8/May/2003
Romania: 1/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 27/Mar/2003/ 22/Apr/2003
Singapore: 204/ 0/ 27/ 153/ 5/May/2003/ 8/May/2003
South Africa: 1/ 0/ 1/ 0/ 9/Apr/2003/ 3/May/2003
Spain: 1/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 2/Apr/2003/ 24/Apr/2003
Sweden: 3/ 0/ 0/ 2/ 18/Apr/2003/ 23/Apr/2003
Switzerland: 1/ 0/ 0/ 1/ 17/Mar/2003/ 5/May/2003
Thailand: 7/ 0/ 2/ 5/ 12/Apr/2003/ 7/May/2003
United Kingdom: 6/ 0/ 0/ 6/ 11/Apr/2003/ 8/May/2003
United States: 63/ 0/ 0/ 33/ 4/May/2003/ 6/May/2003
Viet Nam: 63/ 0/ 5/ 58/ 14/Apr/2003/ 4/May/2003
Total: 7053/ 160/ 506/ 2959

Notes:
Cumulative number of cases includes number of deaths.
1. A decrease in the number of cumulative cases and discrepancies in the
difference between cumulative number of cases of the last and the current
WHO update are attributed to the discarding of cases.

2. Includes cases who are "discharged" or "recovered" as reported by the
national public health authorities.

3. One death attributed to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
occurred in a case medically transferred from Viet Nam.

Areas with recent local transmission 8 May 2003 <http://www.who.int/csr/sarsareas/2003_05_08/en/>

Country: Area/ Pattern of local transmission
Canada: Toronto/ ++
China: Beijing/ +++
China: Guangdong/ +++
China: Hong Kong SAR/ +++
China: Inner Mongolia/ Uncertain
China: Shanxi/ +++
China: Tianjin/ Uncertain
China: Taipei/ ++
Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar/ +
Philippines: Manila/ ++
Singapore: Singapore/ ++

Notes:
Recent local transmission has occurred when, in the last 20 days, one or
more reported probable cases of SARS have most likely acquired their
infection locally regardless of the setting in which this may have occurred.

+ Low -- Imported probable SARS case(s) have produced only one
+ generation
of local probable cases, all of whom are direct personal contacts of the
imported case(s).
++ Medium -- More than one generation of local probable SARS cases, but
only among persons that have been previously identified and followed-up as
known contacts of probable SARS cases.
+++ High -- Local probable cases occurring among persons who have not
+++ been
previously identified as known contacts of probable SARS cases.

[Justa Werkenstiff]

Good point. We can be flippant towards Sars as many have shown to be on this borad as we have had no deaths here in the US. No matter what your statisical take, FACT is that Sars is being treated as a big event in Asia. It cannot be disputed. And so arguing that it should not be a big deal to Asia from our perspective is self-centered focus for sure.