Ardith Hinton:

>            I find the statistics confusing at times because we
> still have much to learn about this disease.  But there's some
> evidence that the death rate is lower in jurisdictions where the
> authorities have been more proactive....  :-)

Sure enough -- just look at the situation in China, South Korea,
and Norith Korea, which has been self-isolating for more than half
a century.

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