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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stomper who wrote (143)	4/16/2003 5:40:19 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

cure for the common cold My view ======= Sure, they have been investigating the common cold for ages. Kept a bunch of scientists in steady jobs with moderate funding, and I'm sure all sorts of interesting data has been collected and analyzed. Nobody has been real determined to find a cure though. An example of what I mean is the development of electronics during conflict. Radar during WW2 for instance. All of a sudden, an effect that many knew about for 10 yrs or so was put through some serious development. Many other examples too. In fact solid state electronics (integrated circuits) came about because of several military contracts. Post WW2 the advanced bombers had over a thousand vacuum tubes in them and a least one was always blowing for each flight. Progress had to be made. Now the enemy is a virus. The good news is we have lots of advanced facilities world wide to investigate the problem. Our communications are better then ever. A big step forward is if we learn how to prevent health workers (dealing with cases) from being infected. Maybe how air is distributed in a hospital may be very important. Of course I sincerely hope good progress is made on that front soon. One other point I would mention is how the data is presented. People put in quarantine is in fact good news. The important data is the known infection rate. Of course we need honesty on that point, and telling fibs is very short term. The infection rate data still looks encouraging according to this chart. who.int