Toronto Boy Confirmed SARS Case...at school

CBC | May 28. 2003

[Lucas1]

The young man who has been the subject of several threads...has SARS.

The school has been shut down. 5000 people are now in quarantine here in Toronto.

They will announce new numbers tomorrow (after WHO told them to count differently) and they are announcing that the number of cases will likely double.

[Lucas1]

"They" being Health Canada.

Two more people died of SARS last night here in Toronto.

[Cicero]

Canada needs some sort of caretaker government until that cretin Chretien retires.

Talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

[per loin]

Nothing to worry about. The Cretin told reporters in Athens that it is not a serious problem.

[IYAAYAS]

Lucas, Are you in Toronto?

[Lucas1]

I am currently up here yes...but I am American. :)

[friendly]

The blessings of socialised medicine:

Doctors stretched beyond their limits.

Lying, deceitfuil bureaucrats.

A completely failed public health system.

[harpseal]

ping

[Prince Charles]

They will announce new numbers tomorrow (after WHO told them to count differently) and they are announcing that the number of cases will likely double.

But Cretin told the world that SARS was under control in Canada?

[IYAAYAS]

I personaly love Toronto, the underground mall, the bars, the loonies and the people are cool. Give me a first hand report. I'm sure you've done it before, but I've missed it. What's it like on the streets of Toronto?
One of the best weekends I ever had was in the Red Sox room at the Sky dome....

[Grig]

Has there been any link back from this boy to any of the oiginal cases, or is this proof that it has now spread to the general poppulation?

[blam]

"Toronto Boy Confirmed SARS Case...at school"

Holy moly....here we go. (I wonder how many are infected from this?)

[blam]

"Has there been any link back from this boy to any of the oiginal cases, or is this proof that it has now spread to the general poppulation?"

The last account I saw was that he has a connection to North York Hospital...Through his parents, I think.

[sakic]

Are you suggesting that SARS will have less success here if there is an initial infestation?

[Prince Charles]

The boy's mother is a health care worker of some kind, but I don't know where.

[Judith Anne]

A nurse, iirc, but I'm not sure which hospital.

[friendly]

US deaths from SARS = 0, despite a vastly greater exposure from people returning from South Asian SARS infested areas.

Reasons?: proper public health measures, better medical system, no faked death certificates as in Toronto, no all-powerful, corrupt Hillary-Care socialist bureaucracy to attempt cover-up of SARS or BSE infestations.

Many of the new SARS cases in the US are from tourists returning from the Toronto SARS plague zone.

[sakic]

We'll see how the "superior" hospital care performs here in the long run. As someone who has had occasion to be hospitalized I'm no great fan of our hospital care.

[EternalHope]

According to the CDC, the U.S. has 66 "probable" cases, of which 7 have confirmed SARS virus in their bodies. Some of the others undoubtedly have SARS, but not all.

The zero deaths in the U.S. is partly because we do not really have a lot of cases, but it most likely means we are also able to keep a very ill person alive for longer than the rest of the world.

Many of the 66 "probable" cases are in intensive care, and have been for some time. I have seen the number in intensive care listed variously at 30 to 45, which seems high for that number of cases. I have not found the actual number listed anywhere on the CDC site. How many of the people in intensive case will eventually die is impossible to predict, but it is quite likely that some of them will.

Even if we can keep them ALL alive indefinitely, it does not mean all of them will eventually recover. It appears that SARS causes substantial permanent lung damage (plus damage to other organs) to many of its survivors.

[1Old Pro]

Canada needs some sort of caretaker government until that cretin Chretien retires. Talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

The Canadian people need to wake up and vote out the socialist/liberals that are ruining that country.