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03/20/14 9:34 PM

#175786 RE: justrpaul #175773

I painted a fairly detailed picture and had no intention of representing it as having great precision.

In fact, precision is not possible since the available data often has large ranges and conflicting data from study to study.

All of my statements found support in available sources. You criticize my statement that "about 25% of the infected are in prison".

You support the statement by saying that 25%-35% of those in prison are infected. Indeed, that is a different proposition.

But consider that in a recent year 2.3M people were in prisons in the US. Apply the mid-point of the range, 30% to the 2.3M persons in prison and you have 690K infected in prisons. Divide that by 3M infected in the US and you get 23%. You would not have to go much above the mid-point to produce my "about 25%".

I agree with your correction of my description of the birth range of the "vast majority". I suspect most who cared to think about it understood my statement. For those who did not, please accept my apology.