Statistically speaking, is 125 people, or 12 teenagers, testing positive for HIV, syphilis or both, in a city the size of Milwaukee really above average for the USA and Canada?
Just asking.
Full disclosure: I'm all for testing absolutely everyone.
I know this is an honest question, but determining a somewhat accurate answer would probably require a fair amount of time and research...
...which is probably more complicated right now than these kinds of inquiries used to be.
Statistics like this (especially when they involve more than a single state or territory of our 50+ "major" jurisdictions) are national in scope, and very likely primarily federal in finances, and right now we are in the midst of a national (and seed-down local) decrease in this kind of research.
According to the CDC, the national rates of infection per 100K people in 2016 were:
Syphilis: overall:8.7 15-19 age range: 6.1 HIV: overall:1.4 15-19 age range: 0.8
Milwaukee has a population of 600K. So per the national averages, they should expect, over the entire city in the course of a year, 52 cases of Syphilis, and 37 cases among the 15-19 year olds; they should expect 8 cases of HIV overall, and 5 cases among 15-19 year olds.
The article says there were 125 diagnosed with Syphilis/HIV/both in one small geographic area (it doesn't break out how many had one or the other).
That would be 2.4 times the expected city-wide rate of Syphilis, and 15.6 times the expected city-wide rate of HIV (assuming all 125 had both).
So, yeah -- it's well above the national average.
edited to add: if you were really interested in the answer to your own question, why didn't YOU go do the math? All of these stats are easily available on the 'net...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2018 10:13AM by ificouldhietokolob.
Gotta hate that phone call....uh Johnny...I'm the one your were forking last week...better get checked for bed bugs...boy that's tough to keep your fly up when bizness get busy...with the new age openness you can actually be having good times with perhaps a hundred other people...sure glad I'm old and don't care
Elyse Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He ate some bad pu$$y. > Throat cancer is often linked to that. > But not always.
And they can determine when it is related to it. His chance of survival is higher because it is due to the HPV virus and not tobacco.
That's the so-called "silver lining" of having cancer due to HPV.
Absolutely. People need their emotional "fixes" throughout the day. Nowadays, you don't even have to wait for the newspaper or the TV show--you can pull it up on line any time and pick whichever clickbait interests you. All you have to do is fight your way through the pop-up ads. And of course, Milwaukee was the setting for the hit 1970s sitcom "Happy Days." Looks like it's evolved some since then.