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...figures are based on an algorithm for estimating the true impact of H1N1 on the U.S. population; it takes into account the patients left out of the official lab-confirmed tally. "We know that a number of deaths that we're seeing are occurring outside of the hospital where testing is not possible," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters at a briefing on Thursday. "We also know that not every patient with influenza gets a diagnosis of flu. For influenza it's virtually impossible to find every case with...
...disease. The researchers simply applied a unique multiplier to each set of data in order to come up with the estimates. With respect to the number of cases of H1N1 infection, for example, CDC scientists believe that for every one case that is reported and confirmed with a laboratory test, there are 79 additional ones that go unrecorded. For every documented case of H1N1 hospitalization, there are an estimated 2.7 that are missed...
...initial test crawl, which took place on her school track, she completed the mile in 45 minutes. Armed with newly purchased biker gloves and kneepads, D’Asaro spent a week crawling around her neighborhood. On her second attempt around the track, D’Asaro found that she had improved her time by 10 minutes. She realized then, she said, that her project was actually “feasible...
...thing moving the ball and scoring the points against some of the teams we’ve played recently,” Murphy said. “And playing a championship-level defense like Penn...I think that’s going to be our test...
...isn’t math prodigies with buzzers facing off over trig identities, as the movies would have you think. The tournament consisted mainly of long tests—the General Test was 100 minutes long—that were taken individually and in groups...