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To: RealMuLan who wrote (334)	4/29/2003 11:50:12 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 1070

>>If you so, you have right for your own opinion.<< Yes, but it's not really just my opinion. It's the opinions of others with more reason to know than I have. The WHO says that Shanghai has far more cases of SARS than are officially reported. news.bbc.co.uk

To: RealMuLan who wrote (334)	4/30/2003 12:14:15 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

One of the factors skewing the statistics all over is the infection of health care workers and the subsequent infection of hospital patients , who (by definition)tend to have some thing wrong with them. They also tend to be much older. Look at the ages in Mq's list - many were hospital patients, not many 20-50 year olds in that bunch. Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam had similar problems like Toronto. SARS could almost be characterized as a hospital problem. Flip side of this is most people who travel extensively on airplanes are business people late 20s to early 60s. Not many 75 year olds, except to visit families. And people who are really sick don't fly, they go to the hospital.