Posted by SLS on May 2, 2018, at 22:50:53
In reply to Re: Number of cases of Lyme Disease in the USA? » SLS, posted by bleauberry on May 2, 2018, at 12:34:08
Bleauberry.
You have been told by your physicians that 9 out of 10 (90%) people presenting with depression will actually have Lyme Disease.
> I have my own estimate of the number of lyme cases in USA. It is 10X whatever we think it is.
Nice non-answer. How much do "we" think it is?
Let's try another experiment. We need to come up with a value representing the number of people in the USA who are walking around with Lyme Disease. 33,000 cases are reported to the CDC each year. However, they estimated that the true number is 10 times higher than this = 329,000. If you were to multiply this number by another 10, we get 3,290,000. Still, this would yield a much lower number than the 90% number you keep touting. For every 100 cases of depression, 8 would have Lyme = 8%. That's still a very big number - certainly bigger than the 7 out of 1000 (0.740%) that results when you use the CDC estimate.
Okay - just for kicks:
To get to 90%, you would have to multiply the CDC estimate by a factor of 110.
That's 110x !
By the way, such a number would imply that 1 in 10 people in the USA are walking around with Lyme Disease.
Does this sound reasonable to you?
Oh, c'mon, Bleauberry. Smile.
For now, I would have to guess that the prevalence of Lyme Disease among people with depression in the USA is somewhere between 1% and 2%. However, this number will vary greatly regionally. 96% of Lyme cases occur in 14 states.
Connecticut
Delaware
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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