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To: Henry Niman who wrote (701)	8/28/2003 5:00:41 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 1070

<In spite of SARS CoV detection by 3 antibody tests, PCR tests, and exact matches for regions of four SARS CoV genes, health officials lifted the quarantine on the two nursing homes and allowed visitors. The officials also refused to identify one of the nursing homes with "summer cold" transmission.> That is amazing given the possible consequences. Possible is perhaps being generous. Sars showed what it does and how spectacularly fatal it is in the right people in the right circumstances [that co-factor business]. That's like being the person responsible for letting smallpox out of the cage, or HIV. I would not like to be the person responsible for umpty million deaths. I would prefer to err on the side of caution. Maybe doctors are so used to death that they have a blase attitude to it. It seems absurd to assume a benign outcome when the consequences of being wrong are vast. Perhaps it's a government conspiracy to reduce the old age pension payments and cost of health care of the old. I'm kidding, but the consequences would be along those lines, as well as a house price drop as lots of previously occupied houses come on the market as old sars victim house owners die. Mqurice

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