Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] SARS update today was really scary.

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jonathan King wrote:

> OK, so it looks to me like the place to focus on with regard to SARS is
> Hong Kong, where the reporting is more than a handful of cases, the
> reporting is probably fairly complete and where there is something
> resembling a modern medical system.  And the news there is really,
> really grim:
>               Cumulative
>            #cases  #deaths
> March 29      470       10
> March 31      530       13
> April 01      685       16
>
> So the death rate is just over 2%


Unfortunately, it's a little worse than that because of the 685, some are
new cases that *will* die eventually.  So you don't really know your
numerator yet.

The other bad news is that it seems to be airborn so that people don't
even need to meet face-to-face to pass the virus -- it seems to spread
through hotels, airplanes and apartment buildings, probably through the
ventilation system.  If that's true, it's going to be really bad.

Mike
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