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Less than three quarters of a million people get HAIs each year. About 75,000 of them die.
https://www.cdc.gov/hai/surveillance/
Meanwhile lawyers operate at scale. How many people do you estimate would have died if tobacco companies had won their challenge to laws prohibiting them from advertising to children? And that's the damage from one lawyer losing one case.
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Less than three quarters of a million people get HAIs each year. About 75,000 of them die.
https://www.cdc.gov/hai/surveillance/
Meanwhile lawyers operate at scale. How many people do you estimate would have died if tobacco companies had won their challenge to laws prohibiting them from advertising to children? And that's the damage from one lawyer losing one case.