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Pastimes : SARS - what next?
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To: Ilaine who wrote (786)10/1/2003 11:01:19 AM
From: Henry Niman   of 1070
 
SARS Saves Lives?

Using the data at the Taiwan site

cdc.gov.tw

an argument can be made that infection with SARS CoV actually saved lives.

The site indicates that 47.8% of the probable SARS cases (n=317) were negative for SARS CoV RNA and antibody, yet these patients had a case mortality rate of 33.8%. In contrast the patients positive for SARS CoV had a case mortality rate of only 21.1%. Moreover, the case mortality rate for those who directly died from SARS was only 10.7%. Thus it seems that if the SARS CoV negative patients had been infected with SARS CoV, many lives could have been saved!
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