[harpseal]

Throughout the investigation, Toronto Public Health said it was not SARS because there was no visible link to SARS cases.

This is my favorite quote in the whole article. Since we are dealing with human beings and viri too small to see with the naked eye a visible link can always be out of view. Anyone who would presume they see all is guilty of such hubris that they deserve extreme punushment but it seems innocent hospita staff will recieve the punishment through infection.

[aristeides]

One of the sick nurses is on a ventilator in the intensive care unit. She is the mother of the student from Father Michael McGivney Catholic Academy in Markham that was recently closed after that student developed SARS symptoms.

Bad news. I hope she makes it.

[Dog Gone]

I don't know whether it's arrogance or stupidity, but the assertion that you can't have SARS unless the doctors know how you caught it has always been nuts.

[CathyRyan]

My fav. is: Berall insists that, knowing what he did at the time, the hospital went beyond the call of duty to protect staff.

translation

Berall insists that, knowing what he did at the time, the hospital went beyond the call of duty to protect the status quo.

Welcome to Shark City Hospital. (insert) Jaws theme music

[nmh]

If it were an aids outbereak, it would be all over the headlines, all over the world. Here's a disease tha anyone can get and mums the word!

[hgro]

Canada, socialized medicine at its "best".

[Allan]

ping

[Prince Charles]

They said they still have concerns about the way North York General is treating SARS. For example, the hospital's SARS unit is so overloaded with patients that some suspected SARS cases are being treated in emergency. The nurses say the only barrier protection provided are some hastily erected shower curtains, which they say they had to fight to have installed. Typically, people with SARS symptoms are treated in isolation, in a negative-pressure hospital room if possible.

Pathetic.