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In order to get a true picture of the death rate for SARS you must divide the number of deaths into the number of known outcomes (there are only two: death or recovery). Those that are infected but have neither died, nor recovered cannot be counted in the death rate. In this light the death rate is closer to 20%. The fear is that it is mutating, and the nature of that mutation is not known at this time.
I would rather this get some attention from public health officials (not sensationalized in the media) so that we don't end up with another AIDS situation a few years from now, with perhaps millions of what could have been peventable infections. Am I going to lose sleep over it? No. I would just rather see us get a handle on it sooner rather than later.
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