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what are you on about? The page that was destroyed was consumer health information about a life-saving preventative medication.





And this was the only website on the internet with information about it? People are going to die because this one website was taken down and there is no other place to possibly read about it?

It was one of the most complete databases, yes.

>People are going to die because this one website was taken down and there is no other place to possibly read about it?

Potentially yes. Doctors and scientists research these stats, find anamolies or patterns, and use that for research into better treatments or tobevem predict future outbreaks if the strain evolves.

We shouldn't be shocked that experts in a field can do a lot with a more complete dataset.




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