[lit-ideas] Re: The flu

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From: "Judy Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 2:52 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The flu


> Saturday, November 20, 2004, 5:31:55 PM, Andreas Ramos wrote:
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> AR> Crippled health-care systems
>
>
> so, business as usual for the US (I see Texascare is in trouble: that 
> means people will have to use Medicaid -- if they can get it -- and 
> Medicaid does not, I learn, pay for a patient in one state to be treated 
> in another even if the treatment isn't available in their own state. 
> *Dreadful*.)
>
>
> AR> Let's see: for the USA (280m people), between 25% to 33%
> AR> would be come ill (70m to 92m) and
> AR> 1% will die (700,000 to 920,000).
>
> calculated, as the article did for Canada, from these figures:
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>.
> Between a quarter and a third of the world's population will fall ill, 
> according to new World Health Organization (news - web sites) estimates, 
> and one per cent of the sick will die
>>>>>>>>>>
>
> I think these are optimistic figures (the death rate especially so) 
> worldwide; but I also think there would be massive national (and possibly 
> regional) variations (also variation by occupation and class, of course); 
> and I'd expect the US to be rather less badly hit than many places.
>
>
> AR> Iran is surely behind this. Let's roll.
>
>
> It's behind everything and (a fairly top US hawk was on TV here yesterday) 
> you're getting ready to roll: regime change in Iran is required.
>
> (he thought Tony Blair could be made to see the light)
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
> mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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