[goldstategop]

Possible? Not likely. You can always extrapolate figures to make things seem worse than they really are. We've been lucky to avoid a major SARS outbreak in the U.S and if the number of cases drop it may be remembered as no more than a set of hyped local outbreaks. Which do not a worldwide epidemic or pandemic make.

[Tarsk]

"Possible? Not likely. You can always extrapolate figures to make things seem worse than they really are."

I draw your attention to point 2 in the above piece:

2) The rate at which cases are growing is currently about 3.5% PER DAY (divide today's reports by yesterday's). That means the number of cases doubles every 20 days or so. Usually, a scary rate like that doesn't persist for very long with a fatal disease. Well, so far we have been almost "spot on" as the British might say for the last 20 days.

[TaxRelief]

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[Jim Noble]

I remain convinced, as I have been saying since mid-March, that it is reckless and foolish to permit entry into the United States of travellers arriving from SARS hot zones.

At a minimum, they should be detained in quarantine for fourteen days at the border (although logistics argue against this).

Why is this so hard to understand?