[TomB]

Sorry, I meant to ping you to post 57 that disputes the assertion the SARS in Canada is "merely in an advanced stage". As you can see, the disease appeared in both countries at about the same time. (MMWR is a good resource for SARS info).

[Carry_Okie]

Are you asserting that because Canada has experienced a number of SARS deaths and the US has not (so far), that such constitutes proof of a systemic superiority of the US healthcare system as it is currently managed?

I hope not, because so far we haven't been hit where we are every bit as likely to be have very similar conditions as exist in Toronto (note: I've worked there in the viral barrier protection business).

What do you have to say about the facts and personal observations I posted? Note that I am not asserting that the Canadian system is in any way superior, quite the contrary; I consider a private system to be superior, but that is hardly what we have.

IMO, so far, considering how our healthcare and public health systems are being managed, we've been damned lucky. We had better be taking the threat of SARS far more seriously in our hospitals than the "business as usual" with a few extra meetings, which is I have seen so far.