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

To: Henry Niman who wrote (631)	7/5/2003 11:37:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

<I think that virtually all initial SARS cases were first treated with antibiotics. > Henry, maybe that was in the absence of knowing what else to do and not knowing the infection agent, but seeing that the infection was really bad. In the early weeks, the epidemiologists were talking about a 4% [or 3% or even 2%] death rate. Maybe that was because of antibiotic treatment rather than faulty maths, as I'd assumed [they compared dead:total infected rather than following a cohort of sick people to see the outcome giving a false sense of security]. Did they continue to give antibiotics when they knew it was an untreatable virus? Mqurice