[theFIRMbss]

>...new U.S. totals, which have increased by 15 since Friday.
>>the growth rate seems to be 'blooming.'

In a week or two,
people with graphing programs
can start posting trends.

Fifteen new cases
over a weekend sounds bad.
But nothing's as clear

as a simple chart
built from solild numbers, or
firm speculation.

Fifteen new cases
over a weekend. Let's pray
this can't hold steady...

[Goodlife]

I dunno if I agree.

Consider that this germ has been "out of the box" and really has never been quarantined, no matter what anyone has said. It's turned up on Hong Kong schools, hits hospitals pretty hard, etc.

That was the revelation on March 15th. Now it's March 24th, and we're look at 4x cases. In ten days if it was as wildly virulent and some people think, I'd expect to be EVERYWHERE. Every person infecting everyone else... there'd be no end of cases. It wouldn't be 400 probably cases, it'd be 400,000.

So I think I buy the "close contact" theory...

[Mother Abigail]

Singapore

Boy infected, 140 kids sent home
Pat's Schoolhouse closed for 10 days; some parents upset that centre wasn't alerted earlier that boy's mother had the bug

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My God who is running that program, HK is asking for big trouble

[Mother Abigail]

Pat's Schoolhouse in Lim Ah Pin Road, a childcare centre for 140 two- to six-year-olds, was cleared out because a five-year-old boy, the son of a Sars patient, is down with the bug.

After an alert from Health Ministry officials yesterday morning, the centre began contacting the parents of its 140 students to say it would be shut for 10 days.

The boy had been there the week before, as the centre wasn't closed for the week-long break, something which upset parents.