[per loin]

Looks like the Canucks are up to a new trick to cover their incompetence.

[McGavin999]

Probably the difference between a free market health system and socialized medicine. We don't have to wait a week or two to get a doctor's appointment.

[ex-Texan]

"Psst ... It's the chemtrails, D'Cunha ! ... The Chemtrails" . . .

I gonna go back to bed. It's way too late.

[Chewbacca]

I have been wondering whether the doctors and nurses have become immune to SARS because of all the diseases they are around and have become SARS carriers themselves and actually transmitting the disease to their patience.

[Redcloak]

It's just so unfair that the Americans should weasel out of having their fair share of SARS cases.

</sarcasm>

[Future Useless Eater]

The U.S. puts out only the skimpiest of data, and I have recently been AMAZED at how long it is taking some of our 'probable' cases to recover.

So I did a spreadsheet on what little US data there was and came up with some interesting observations...

[First, remember that per loin and other researchers have pointed out that in Hong Kong, SARS DEATHS took 36 days on average, and SARS RECOVERIES took 24 days on average. This holds approximately the same in other countries too, from what I've seen]

Out of our current ACTIVE U.S. caseload of 35 'probable' cases, it seems that...

•  3 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 49 days or more and counting
•  2 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 48 days and counting
•  2 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 47 days and counting
•  9 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 43 days and counting
•  2 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 42 days and counting
•  3 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 39 days and counting
•  4 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 38 days and counting
•  2 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 37 days and counting
•  1 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 33 days and counting
•  1 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 27 days and counting
•  1 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about 15 days and counting
•  2 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about  9 days and counting
•  1 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about  2 days and counting
•  2 patient(s) have been hospitalized AND classified 'probable' about  1 days and counting

So it would seem we have quite a few VERY SERIOUS patients being kept alive by extreme means!

I was able to coax a little more observation from the charts related to RECOVERIES...

So far as I can calculate RECOVERIES...

• 1 was hospitalized AND classified 'probable' for about 40 days
• 1 was hospitalized AND classified 'probable' for about 36 days
• 2 were hospitalized AND classified 'probable' for about 35 days
• 1 was hospitalized AND classified 'probable' for about 9 days
• 1 was hospitalized AND classified 'probable' for about 8 days
• 1 was hospitalized AND classified 'probable' for about 6 days
• 1 was hospitalized AND classified 'probable' for about 5 days

  It does seem like we are dangerously close to having a few deaths in the US.
  Many of our cases have gone on longer than the worldwide average for recoveries or deaths, or for that matter, even longer than OUR OWN track record for recoveries.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Dr. Colin D'Cunha, the chief medical officer quoted, is somewhat incompetent. He is way over his head on this one and is flailing around, trying to distact attention from his own incompetence.