Re: more on Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

Did they decline faster in the "downwind" counties than they did in other
counties?  That is the claim.

Don Kosloff dkosloff@ncweb.com
2910 Main St Perry OH 44081

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Harrison <laharris@smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: more on Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate


> I just checked Colorado Vital Statistics for infant mortality rates from
1989 to 1998 for Larimer & Weld Counties, Colorado.  Mr Mangano claims these
are downwind of the (ex)Fort St. Vrain reactor.  Maybe, maybe not.  Anyway,
infant mortality rates did in fact decline in that period.  Guess what?
They did in the rest of the State too.  Hooray for modern medicine and
neonatology.
>
 I recommend checking infant mortality rates (and other endpoints if you can
find them) for "downwind" counties around reactors that did not close in the
period in question.  If the rates declined in the same manner, you can
pretty much discount reactors as having anything to do with the effect.


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