It turns out, she writes, that the whole diagnosis is basedon one experiment from the 1960s in which doctors strapped 50 monkeys onto a track and slammed them into a wall at high speed.
The Oregon experiment, led by the talented MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, is basedona situation in Oregon in 2008 when a limited number of Medicaid spots were given out by lottery.
That experiment was basedonthe long-held notion that a pandemic strain is more likely to emerge when a flu virus mixes its genes with another virus in an animal host, such as a pig.