HK SARS deaths reach new high

CNN Asia ^ | 4.18.03

[Free Trapper]

I just heard the same on another thread.

I'll have to change my work for the summer and it will hurt a little but I know some folks that will probably be ruined from this.

Hmmm.This could be a very good year to buy out some of my competition.

[per loin]

My new chart is at:

chart

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for your new chart...I worry about those high numbers of people still in the hospital.

[per loin]

For four days now the number of hospitalized has been going down, which must be a relief to staff. That fits the approximate three week stay that we've been seeing, as that Amoy Garden bulge was three weeks ago and ran for about six days.

On the other hand, the death rate keeps rising. That could mean that they are not hospitalizing people at the early stages of the disease, and thus temporarily skewing the figures. If not that, then the minimum death rate is pushing toward 8%.

[Judith Anne]

It might also mean that patients are routed to military hospitals...

[per loin]

I'm not sure that Hong Kong has much in the way of military hospitals.

[Judith Anne]

LOL!

Anyway, DB just posted a new article at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897158/posts

Interesting...

[per loin]

You're a nurse. how serious is a disease that has an average hospital stay of three weeks? That seems extraordinarily long to me.

[Judith Anne]

Sorry--flamefront posted it.

I'm getting tired. Good night.

[Judith Anne]

Very serious.

Gall bladder surgery (buttonhole type) 1-2 days.

Appendicitis surgery 1-2 days.

Pneumonia (ordinary) 2-5 days.

Stomach bug with dehydration: 2 days.

Shoulder surgery: overnight.

Breast biopsy: outpatient

Cataract surgery: outpatient

Face lift: overnight

COPD with pneumonia: a week, maybe

Broken arm: outpatient or overnight.

Hip surgery: 2-3 days then extended care.

Ruptured appendix, otherwise healthy: 4-7 days.

[tm22721]

This is a payback for all of humanity who continue to insist on packing urban centers.

Two million years of rural isolation has not prepared the human race for resistance to communicable disease.

China is only the warning. As with the middle ages and The Plague, we will all once again pay the price for our stupidity.

BUMP

[aristeides]

SARS victim rode jammed GO Trains: Health officials urge nearby riders to put themselves into quarantine.

[aristeides]

Complex Problem: Hong Kong housing project home to 300-plus SARS cases.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for posting the links.

[blam]

"The commuting nurse works in the severe acute respiratory unit at Mount Sinai hospital in downtown Toronto. She started developing a fever and other symptoms at work last Monday and, in late afternoon, took the GO Train home to Appleby in Halton Region, west of the city.

Still symptomatic and therefore infectious, she took the train back downtown Tuesday morning and failed a SARS screening test hospital workers must take when they report for work. She's now in hospital listed as a probable SARS case. There's no conclusive test for the virus, but officials say she has it."

This is the actions of a health care worker!! We're doomed.

[blam]

Ping.

[Judith Anne]

Malpractice, imho.

[_Jim]

jim stated earlier in this thread that his conclusions are somehow based on "sampling."

You have either a) over-generalized or b) taken out of context what I wrote or missed my intended meaning completely. I posted what I posted and still stand by them. Go back and re-read them. They are veritable nuggets of commnon sense and wisdom ...

[_Jim]

Yea, and "sampling" is done to massage results or

or what?

I don't think you really have ANY basis for making a valid objection.

I'm sticking by what I wrote/what I posted.

[_Jim]

The initial few months stats for projection purposes are

A LARGE part of what I wrote on was based on some of the obsevations made for Guangdong province - THIS area has history with this disease well back into NOVEMBER.

Those observations as they relate to 'growth' of this contagion, I insist, are valid for *any* region which takes the precautions that Guangdong province did.

Constantly 'rediscovering the wheel' by observing the disease's progress in new areas doesn't give you a view of the 'end game' that shows in areas where it first appears and now seems to be 'arrested'.

Some of you guys, apparently, haven't read as diversely as I have the past few weeks. Continuely reading 'scare pieces' (disguised as new releases) by our press will do that to you ...