Focusing on deaths can miss big picture
By Xu Wei | China Daily | Updated: 2014-10-11 07:40
Is the number of deaths the single parameter for a disaster?
The magnitude-6.6 quake that hit Jinggu county, Yunnan province, has so far killed one person. Medical institutions have treated 323, with 14 being hospitalized and 46 discharged.
Among a string of other losses caused by the earthquake, the figure of one person killed stood out sharply, even quite unpleasantly.
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