State by state breakdown of SARS cases

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

[CanadianBacon]

You might get it from talking on the phone to Democrats

[steve86]

You can panic- I choose not to.

I wouldn't characterize my reaction as panic. However, it seemed a prudent time to add a few N95 masks to my emergency kit. Who knows why they may be needed.

[riri]

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

The price tag could be much higher.

[_Jim]

The Sierra Times = Scare Piece

This article isn't even current: "4-4-3"!

[aristeides]

US officials find SARS virus in 6 suspect patients.

[_Jim]

If it turns out that she is wrong and that the CDC was not listening to its critics,

"And then, the disease turned political. Much like AIDS did."

[_Jim]

New Zealand's National Business Review -- Sars: Plenty of precedents in history

[Paloma_55]

There is another, really nasty bug rolling around as well out here in California. It is being called SASS (Severe Acute Sinusitus Syndrome) or the Pneumonia Flu. It starts out as a nose cold that becomes extremely serious sinusitus (an infection of the sinus cavities) and then drops down into the lungs where pneumonia can occur. It appears to be very contagious, primarily when it has dropped into the lungs because of the heavy coughing it causes. Anti-biotics are required to alleviate it.

[_Jim]

Hong Kong more confident it can beat SARS

Excerpt:

The number of new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome was 22 both Sunday and Monday -- the lowest totals this month.

Experts call the decline in new cases encouraging, but said Hong Kong needs to see a sharp and sustained drop, and warned the territory's proximity to mainland China, where the disease originated and is still spreading, could complicate matters.

Hong Kong would appear to be heading in the right direction if new cases dropped into the single digits and stayed there, said Henry Niman, a Harvard University instructor who teaches surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Compare SARS death statistics with the following:

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U.S. HIGHWAY DEATHS HIGHEST SINCE 1990

More people died on America’s highways last year than any year since 1990, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday. The NHTSA’s latest yearly results show that 42,850 people died in 2002 in highway accidents; almost a fourth of them, or 10,626, involved the rollover of an SUV or pickup, the agency added. The total number of deaths rose 1.7 percent from 2001, when 42,116 people died in traffic accidents; in 1990, some 44,599 people were killed in accidents. Of the 2002 fatalities, 42 percent were associated with alcohol use, a number that’s been on the rise since 1999; 59 percent of the fatalities were not wearing seatbelts, the agency reported.

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42,850 divided by 365 days = 117.4 deaths per day by automobile related accidents.

[aristeides]

From that link:

"Of the 39 probable SARS patients, 37 had traveled to mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Hanoi, or Toronto; one was a health-care worker who provided care to a SARS patient, and one was a household contact of a SARS patient," the CDC said in a statement.

That suggests the disease is not spreading freely inside the United States.

The CDC said 27 of the patients were ill enough to have been hospitalized and one was put on a ventilator.

[_Jim]

SARS panic has bigger impact than illness

[_Jim]

That suggests the disease is not spreading freely inside the United States.

Are you sure that's not an intentionally mis-leading statement?

I mean, I feel fear and panic crawling up and down my back like i've never seen it before, well, since Y2K anyway ...

</sarcasm>

Otherwise - that's *good* news!

[per loin]

That this disease would likely have huge political and economic consequences has been obvious for well over a month now. Some of us who started looking into it back in mid-February, before it got to Hong Kong, have suspected that it may become the defining factor of the age. Time will tell.

[_Jim]

New cases of SARS decline in Hong Kong

HONG KONG (AP) -- Hong Kong reopened most secondary schools Tuesday three weeks after they were closed to keep the SARS virus from spreading ...

... experts say they are looking for a sharp and sustained drop in new infections -- lasting for weeks, not just days -- that would show severe acute respiratory syndrome is coming under control.

[Dog Gone]

There's not the slightest doubt that economic damage has been greater with this outbreak than the human toll has been. Speaking rather cold-heartedly, I imagine, this is a serious threat to Bush's re-election chances, because it's going to make robust economic recovery extremely difficult, and perhaps impossible.

While the problem has definitely been addressed in Hong Kong, thanks to extraordinary precautions being taken by residents there, how long can they keep it up? The problem is very clearly NOT under control in the rest of China and you can't put Hong Kong in a mayonnaise jar.

[_Jim]

it may become the defining factor of the age.

Those exact thoughts are beginning to show up now in the world press, although they don't quite phrase it that way yet.

[Lucy Lake]

A suspected case of SARS has shown up in Pennington County, South Dakota according to www.RapidCityJournal.com

It isn't shown on the chart.

[per loin]

The press will catch up. BTW, the correct terminology is "The Age of SARS".

[Species8472]

I suppose there is a reason you don't consider Alaska to be a State? Most flights between the orient and the lower 48 stop here for fuel. How about some stats for us as well!