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The_Yoda on 02 October 2024
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SvennoJ said:
The_Yoda said:

Nice consistent sources good work.

Read better, check the link

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. Elias Warrak, an ophthalmologist who has treated blast victims in and around Beirut following a series of deadly explosions of handheld devices across Lebanon.

Seems likely an opthalmologist only sees cases where victims got hit in the face.

Second statement: Around three-quarters of those patients, referring to treated about 80 injured.

These are not overall statistics.

Sorry I do not follow many of your links (some sources look sketchy) as for reading ...

It's a real nightmare, because most of the injuries, most of the casualties - they lost either one of their eyes or both eyes sometimes. And the facial injuries are really massive because of the explosion of whatever devices they were holding in their hands. We couldn't save much of the eyes. And in some cases, we had even to remove both eyes of the patients because the damage was so great. I mean, you cannot even resuture the eye.

the first day, we left the operating room around 5 in the morning, and the second day, we left at around 2 in the morning. So it has been hectic for the past two or three days. And most of the casualties, they are young people. They are in their 20s. All of the casualties, we requested to do a CT scan for the brain and the orbits, because some of the patients, they had intracranial shrapnel. They had some injuries to the brain, so they had to be operated by neurosurgeons, and then we went in as an ophthalmology team just to treat their eyes. But the - unfortunately, I mean, there is not a single casualty who didn't lose at least one eye.

My bad I thought "most" meant "not all" I will try to read better and remember that "most of the injuries, most of the casualties - they lost either one of their eyes or both eyes sometimes" really means "there is not a single casualty who didn't lose at least one eye." Silly me, I thought those two statements were at odds and that the line I bolded in the second article supported that. I'll try to read SvennoJ style next time.