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Percentage of children under age 5 who died of pneumonia between 2000 and 2003. Undernutrition is the root cause of 53% of deaths in that age group...
Markel and colleagues divided the cities' interventions into three major categories: school closure, cancellation of public gatherings, and isolation and quarantine. During the 24 weeks researchers studied, there were 115,340 excess deaths due to pneumonia and influenza in 43 states, with a collective population of about 23 million. New York City responded to its earliest sign of infection with isolation and quarantine over a sustained period of time, beginning 13 days after the first case was detected, and had the lowest pandemic-related death rate of any city on the East coast. By contrast, Pittsburgh reacted late, waiting...
...authors estimated that 2,200 fewer elderly Americans would die each year from heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and pneumonia in the 3,720-surveyed hospitals if the death rates at the lowest-ranked hospitals matched those at the top-performing ones...
...jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn't afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics...
...message sent to Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors that evening, Knowles promised to return soon. A week later, he was forced to enter Massachusetts General Hospital, suffering from pneumonia and sepsis...