700,000 people affected by ARDS each year in the US???
I forgot to post this the other day, but at our mini-conference, Dr. Michael Moore said that there are as many a 700,000 ARDS cases in the US each year!
After he spoke I asked him, did he mean in the world? What was this that I had heard all the time about 150,000? I said that I always thought that 150,000 was a low estimate, but 700,000?
He said that the research shows an incidence the equals about 200,000 to 700,000 per year in the US. To me, that sounds like an epidemic. But no one wants to know about an epidemic that cannot be prevented, cannot be cured, and can only be treated, and not so well... Or at least, no well enough.
hocking, isn't it? Or is it just shocking that still no one in the general public really knows about ARDS and that the media barely reports on it.
posted by ARDS Survivor @ 10:08 AM
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Clearly, ARDS is something that other people get, not them... well, that is obviously what people think. A really obscure thing that just won't happen to them. When I explain how you can have almost anything and it might result in ARDS, when I illustrate examples, I think it is too horrifying to think, 'that could happen to me?' Better not to, I guess. But as we know it can...
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