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To: blam
Great article.

We've known about the statistical problem for quite a while on FreeRepublic. Nice to see the news media catching up.

However, someone needs to remind the reporter that more people have died from ___________ (fill in clever comparison here) than SARS has killed in billions of years.

Otherwise, his comment, "..it now seems clear that in the absence of a cure or a vaccine, SARS could eventually kill millions," will definitely draw fire on FreeRepublic.
2 posted on 04/25/2003 3:18:12 PM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever.)
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To: per loin; riri; CathyRyan; aristeides; Judith Anne; Ma Li; ex-Texan
ping.
5 posted on 04/25/2003 3:24:16 PM PDT by blam
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To: EternalHope
... a statistical difficulty, well known to epidemiologists,...

This difficulty was known to the professionals though.

23 posted on 04/25/2003 4:14:05 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: EternalHope
than SARS has killed in billions of years.

SARS hasn't been around for "Billions of years" as far as we know. Maybe only a few years, maybe less than one. Give SARS time, it might turn out to be nothing at all, or the 21st century equivalent of the Black Death, or at least the Spanish Flu. We shall see I guess.

24 posted on 04/25/2003 4:14:28 PM PDT by El Gato
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