State by state breakdown of SARS cases

CDC ^ | 4/24/2003 | CDC/Orbiting_Rosie's_Head

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

Does anyone know where to find a specific map for locating the US SARS cases? Why is this information not being made public? I am angry that the disease is not being tracked in real-time with specific maps. Here is the most specific breakdown I could find at the CDC.

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State	Total Cases	Suspect Cases	Probable Cases
Alabama	1	1	0
Arizona	1	1	0
Arkansas	1	1	0
California	46	34	12
Colorado	8	6	2
Connecticut	5	4	1
Florida	15	14	1
Georgia	3	3	0
Hawaii	5	3	2
Illinois	13	12	1
Indiana	1	1	0
Kansas	1	0	1
Kentucky	2	1	1
Maine	2	2	0
Massachusetts	12	11	1
Michigan	3	3	0
Minnesota	7	7	0
Mississippi	2	1	1
Missouri	2	2	0
Nevada	2	2	0
New Hampshire	1	1	0
New Jersey	4	3	1
New Mexico	1	0	1
New York	27	22	5
North Carolina	6	6	0
Ohio	11	9	2
Oregon	1	1	0
Pennsylvania	7	6	1
Rhode Island	1	1	0
South Carolina	2	2	0
Texas	7	7	0
Utah	7	6	1
Vermont	2	2	0
Virginia	6	4	2
Washington	23	22	1
Wisconsin	1	1	0
Total	239	202	37

[Trust but Verify]

Very important information from the article you cited.

Most of the people involved in Santa Clara County’s suspected cases either recently traveled to Asia - where the disease is most prevalent - or were in contact with people who did.

People just need to calm down! Unless you have travelled to Asia or been in contact with someone who has and is sick, your cjances of contracting this disease are almost nil. Public health people are on very high state of alert on this, folks and when they get a case, they are going to be all over finding out where their patient could have gotten it and finding out who they could have transmitted it to.

The best thing you can do is practice strict personal hygiene and keep your immune system in good shape.

[riri]

That is the person who went to the baseball game, I believe.

Even so, even if only 3 people have come back infected in such a short window and only 300 odd are supposed to be infected. I would say that is a disproportionately high number. I am guessing Toronto must have more cases-or people visiting Toronto are hanging around ICU wards.

[_Jim]

That's right, deny any danger exists out there.

Squash any news stories in the press. (NOT happening)

Don't post SARS numbers on the CDC site. (THEY are easily available)

Individial states restricted from publishing thier own numbers. (So far, this ain't true)

Next.

[Trust but Verify]

Ahh, and why aren't you panicking? You must have your head in the sand like me.

[per loin]

I think you're right about the bartender.

[_Jim]

You got it!

[Trust but Verify]

There are a few simple precautions people can take. I know personal responsibility is not in vogue these days, but really, stay away from the far east. Do not have contact with someone who has recently travelled there. Practice personal hygiene, wash hands often, don't hang around sick people, and if you become ill yourself, have your doctor determine whether you have SARS but in the meantime, stay away from others.

[NRA2BFree]

You can*t do that unless everyone has the details about which areas to avoid.

I think you just answered your own question. Can you imagine how this would hurt our struggling economy?

if people started avoiding areas they thought someone with SARS might have been, the businesses in that area would lose ALL of their customers, go broke, and end up laying off all their employees.

The government is not about to let that happen.

[riri]

CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE A LITTLE TALK WITH JULIE GERBERDING

By Charles Ortleb

Julie Gerberding, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, really should have a little message delivered to her that she can thoroughly understand. She doesn't have much wiggle room where the cause of SARS is concerned. The apocalpytic nature of this pandemic demands that she get it right, and if evidence is not conclusive, she'd better be funding and encouraging alternative research into the cause of SARS. Anyone who knows the history of the CDC on the issues of AIDS and CFIDS knows how arrogant and incompetent this world famous organization can be. If the same incompetence and arrogance are operative on the SARS front, millions will lose their lives and the world could plunge into a chaos of our worst nightmares. Medical organizations in other countries bow down to the CDC at their own peril.

Congress should call Gerberding in and they should also extend an invitation to Frank Plummer, the Canadian scientist who argues that the data does not support Gerberding's not-so-tentative conclusion that the SARS-associated coronavirus is the cause of SARS. Congress should listen closely to Frank Plummer to see if his arguments have merit. They should also basically put Gerberding on notice that she must encourage a vigorous debate about the cause of SARS. They should make sure she is funding research into alternative theories of SARS causation. If it turns out that she is wrong and that the CDC was not listening to its critics, Gerberding and her colleagues should pay for their mistakes with their jobs.

Charles Ortleb is the author of The Closing Argument and the co-author of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Follies.

[Trust but Verify]

I wish you would stop it. It would be short sighted and assinine for 'the government', whoever that would include, to allow the disease to become widespread through 'cover up'. Think about what you're alleging!

[_Jim]

if people started avoiding areas they thought someone with SARS might have been,/i>

Greater risks right there in your own neighborhood include car accidents, getting hit while crossing the street, stumbling and hitting your head, horseback riding, dirt bike riding, motorcycle riding, drowning, NOT to mention all the diseases that are *natively* here already ...

[_Jim]

Anyone who knows the history of the CDC on the issues of AIDS and CFIDS knows

Hmmm ...

[aristeides]

Ortleb makes a lot of sense.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This wouldn't even register over the margin of error for reporting of HPV. I say it'll turn out to be another sexually transmitted disease.

[aristeides]

Northwest flight being held in San Francisco due to sick passenger.

[_Jim]

Ortleb makes a lot of sense.

He's a novelist for cripes sake!

He can make practically ANYTHING 'make sense'!

[aristeides]

NWA Plane Takes Off After SARS Scare .

[daylate-dollarshort]

"That's right, deny any danger exists out there. The problem will go away. Bucks always more important than lives. Play like the Chicoms and hide the cases."

I said no such thing. I agree that the danger should be published but that publication should be accurate and not sensationaized. The question here is how many cases of SARS there really are. This report only indicates might be SARS cases. Anyone with a common cold might be included in these figures.

You can panic- I choose not to.

[_Jim]

Charles Ortleb, a novelist and former editor of the New York Native, a newspaper that served the city's gay and lesbian community and that investigated a link between pigs and AIDS in the 1980s,

From: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/Daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=3772

[GrandMoM]

SARS Sending California
and the Pacific Into Confusion
The Sierra Times
4-4-3

SAN FRANCISCO -- According to the Associated Press California, gateway
to the Pacific rim and home to the nation's largest Asian population,
has the highest number of suspected U.S. cases of a mysterious new
respiratory illness that first appeared in Asia.

But state and local health officials say the disease is well under
control, and all of those sick with severe respiratory acute syndrome,
or SARS, are recovering or expected to recover.

"This doesn't seem to be a disease that people are picking up at the
grocery store or at a bus station," said Dr. Susan Fernyak of the San
Francisco County Health Department. "It's not time to run out and buy
white surgical masks."
But then again...

Orange County health officials said two people who recently traveled to
mainland China have contracted a flu-like mystery illness that has
killed 78 people worldwide.

The Orange County Health Care Agency would not release information
about the patients on Wednesday except to say that one was roughly 40
years old, and the other around 60. Neither of the cases were related
and both people did not travel together.

Neither person is very ill, but they have been asked to stay at home
until 10 days after their symptoms disappear to ensure they don't
spread the disease, said Dr. Hildy Myers, medical director of
assessment and epidemiology for the Orange County Health Care Agency.
The county is sending specimens from the patients to the California
Department of Health Services for further evaluation, Meyers said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reports that
California has 19 suspected cases - the most for any state. And state
health officials say they are investigating another 12 cases.

Of those 31 suspected cases, at least 17 traveled to southeast Asia in
recent weeks, and three others share homes with travelers to Asia. No
health care workers have been infected so far, state health officials
said Wednesday.

Authorities aren't sure why California's cases appear to be less
virulent than those in Asia, where most of the deaths - at least 78
worldwide - have occurred.

Fernyak said California's cases may be from third or fourth generations
of the germ, which could weaken each time it is passed along. Also, the
state's different climate and lower population density may be factors,
she said.

But these are just theories. No one has conclusively proved what causes
the disease, although U.S. health officials say they are 90 percent
sure it's a new form of the coronavirus, one of the causes of the
common cold.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked local health
departments to help track down 140 Americans who stayed at Hong Kong's
Metropole Hotel on Feb. 21 or Feb. 22, the same time a Chinese doctor
who was dying of the disease was staying there. Most of those people -
118 - are from California.

The impact on business activity is widening from Hong Kong around the
globe, disrupting complex supply chains and forcing industries from
airlines to banking to adjust how they operate.

On Tuesday, an American Airlines flight from Tokyo was isolated on the
tarmac at San Jose's international airport after the captain reported
that five people on board might have symptoms of SARS. It turned out to
be a false alarm.

Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Los Angeles County director of public health,
notes that the number of suspected cases in California is small
considering the state's population of 34 million. Health officials also
say the number seems low because California is home to 3.7 million
Asians and a key point in the brisk tide of people crossing the Pacific
Ocean.

San Francisco, with a population that's 31 percent Asian, has reported
just a single suspected case.

At least 11 other people in the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are
suspected of falling ill. Los Angeles County has reported seven
possible cases.

http://www.sierratimes.com/03/04/04/articleca.htm