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Friday, June 20, 2003UPDATE: Michael Fumento replies: A system by definition is not a few hospitals, a few hospitals is just that. When CNN.com warned that SARS could overwhelm the US health care system, everybody who read that understood that it meant essentially the entire nation, not a hospital here and there. As to WHO's efforts, if this disease were anywhere near as transmissible as WHO would have wanted us to think, quarantines would have done no more good than they do with flu. Moreover, WHO didn't get in on the act until March when the first SARS cases go back at least to mid-November. The epidemic peaked because contagious disease epidemics always do. It's called Farr's law. In my AIDS book I wrote that when the epidemic failed to do what PHS had promised, PHS would say it was only because of its own actions. I also pointed out the first PHS AIDS campaign didn't begin until 1987about two years after infections had peaked, so that couldn't possibly be the reason. Sure enough, it later became common to hear that but for the PHS quick and decisive action on hetero AIDS .... Some things never change. posted by Sydney on 6/20/2003 08:58:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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