Word: predictabilities
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...doesn't have much time. Some China watchers predict that former President Jiang Zemin, who continues to exert influence over the party, will try to shove Hu aside if the government fails to contain the epidemic and China's economy stumbles. There's little cause for optimism on either count. Citigroup economists have lowered the projected growth rate of China's economy this year from 7.6% to 6.5% as a result of the SARS scare. Meanwhile, the virus is picking up steam in the impoverished hinterlands, where public awareness of the risks of SARS is limited and hospitals lack...
...don’t really expect a certain position [in the draft],” Morris says. “All the people that get paid to predict this…nobody’s going to be right. I’m just waiting for it to be over...
...It’s hard to predict what emotions will come out for you personally,” she said...
...suggest that ribavirin may actually do nothing to the coronavirus. Scientists are exploring other antivirals?such as interferon, which boosts the immune system?or even HIV drugs?such as protease inhibitors, which block an enzyme the virus needs to replicate. But too little is known about the coronavirus to predict the effectiveness of these other drugs...
...researchers looked at data from the 1990s which gave the number of infections caused by strains of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae that were not treatable by certain antibiotics. They then employed a mathematical model of disease transmission to predict the prevalence of such drug-resistant strains in the future...