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To: Jim Robinson
According to medical expert Dr. John Torres, one child dies every day in Africa from malaria, an astronomical figure. ... malaria already kills an average of 100,000 people per year in west Africa..

Wait, what?

How did we get from 365/year to 100,000/year?

18 posted on 10/04/2014 7:08:02 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
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To: Sherman Logan

The only easy explanation that comes to me immediately is that it’s 365 children per year and the rest are adults. The calculator says that’s 272 adults per child.

That sounds too high to me. I’d bet he’s off by some order of magnitude, maybe a child per hour instead of per day, for example.


27 posted on 10/04/2014 7:28:09 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: Sherman Logan

That ‘one child a day’ reference was erroneously low. Malaria is still a big problem.


40 posted on 10/04/2014 8:35:50 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Sherman Logan

Common core math.


56 posted on 10/05/2014 7:38:45 AM PDT by EEGator
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