This topic came up on the social distanncing thread. Goju used these great graphs in his presentation from the CDC: it showed 1918 death rates in Philly vs St. Louis. I have looked and looked and can not find them anywhere! Goju - can you link it? Or does anyone else know where they are? The specific graph is called:
1918 Death Rates: Philladelphia vs St/. Louis
Thanks to whoever finds it first!
If anyone is trying to convince someone - especially schools - that closing schools, cancelling public events, etc. can work, show them this graph. That’s what St. Louis did and it made a huge difference. Granted, they had a little more advanced warning than Philly (which got hammered fast and hard), but clearly it worked.
You would have to say the mayor of St. Louis was a very smart man. The difference between those two graphs is quite stagerring!
I have a packet of six pieces, including Goju’s St. Louis graphs that I put together for local school boards. If you send me your email, I will gladly email the packet to you. I am at cefprice@comcast.net
these belong in the big files project?
Goju’s link works as well.
Thank you all - exactly what I was looking for. Pretty amazing difference huh? My kids’ school board is having a meeting to discuss emergency proceedures and I wanted to bring these. It’s a private school and they are pretty on top of things (the teachers developed on-line lesson plans during the summer) but they haven’t really nailed down closure yet, I’m sure because it’s such a sensitive topic.
There are lots of other great files at
thanks goju! I haven’t seen some of these before. I’ll print them off later - i’m builidng a notebook of key survival info to have on hand and/or give copies to others. Some of these will come in handy.
compiations - there’s more than one - there’s a CD in iso format somewhere
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