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- From: fogarty@sir-c.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tim Fogarty)
- Subject: Re: CDC estimates of HIV infection
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.043356.6906@cs.ucla.edu>
- Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
- Sender: fogarty@sirc.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tim Fogarty)
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- References: <1993Jan24.231301.16926@cs.ucla.edu> <1993Jan25.165759.19055@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:13:23 GMT
- Approved: david@stat.com (David Dodell)
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- In article <1993Jan25.165759.19055@cs.ucla.edu>,
- weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
-
- |>
- |>In sum, 1-1.5 million is about the best one can say. The roundness
- |>of the figure gives it a lock that our ignorance cannot veto. The
- |>correct figure is presumably on the increase, but keep in mind that
- |>the true number itself will obviously not increase as fast as new
- |>infections--about 80% of those HIV+ in 1987 are now dead.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Please site your source for this figure. From personal experience, I find
- 80% hard to believe. I have many friends who knew that they were HIV+ back
- then, and they are still around.
-