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I'd like to correct your statistics: 1119 sampled emergency department treatments over 11 years and an estimated 25000 emergency room visits for the whole of th
by rrobukef 4y ago
I'd like to correct your statistics: 1119 sampled emergency department treatments over 11 years and an estimated 25000 emergency room visits for the whole of the US. An estimated 20% (5000 people) were hospitalized. 94% of the visit involved things falling under this regulation.
In a separate study, 46.4% of the children required procedures, of which 14.2% required surgery and 9.6% got sick ("morbidity").
They also mention at least 3 death-cases.
Source: the report [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-09-21/pdf/2022-20200.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-09-21/pdf/2022-2...]
- kragen 4y agoI appreciate the correction; 230 visits per year across the US is indeed significantly different from 19 visits per year. But this corrected statistic still paints an overall picture of an almost insignificant risk, hundreds of times smaller than being struck by lightning — more like the injury and death rates of shark attacks, falling cows, cactus spine injuries, slipping on orange peels, and fights between humans and roosters. This hardly seems like an adequate justification for extensive new restrictions on valuable experimental materials. It seems more like the EU's unreasonable new restrictions on access to borax.