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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (3935)	11/9/2001 12:29:38 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14610

But the 5000 needed seems to me to be the alarming number. If true that is a mach larger number than what I thought was out there. Would you agree? It depends on what they mean by "needed." That's probably a public health term of art or an official CDC category of some kind. If it includes the 4200 Washington postal employees who were given Cipro, it doesn't seem so big. If it includes everyone who worked in or visited the Hart Office Building, whom all were given meds, it's not big at all. It likely doesn't mean what it might mean in common parlance, which IMO would include first responders and those exposed--within the perimeter established by environmental and nasal sampling. If it did, I would agree that's a big number. It might mean those who have been advised to continue on the full course of the medication. That includes the Washington postal workers, I think. Karen