It's also not a problem in the first place with the context in this thread. Broadly saying that physicians that specialize in anesthesia, surgery, or other specialties are not staffed at a hospital or emergency room is factually incorrect. When was the last time you were in a hospital ER or ICU? I've been there off and on for the last few weeks and months. > They don't do anesthesia, they don't do surgery, they are, in general, not specialists. To a first, second, third, and fourth approximation, kids in the United States don't get run over. That's still about 90 times as common as a 99.99999% problem, but I have a sneaking suspicion you were just making that number up. In other words, the annual rate of this problem occurring is estimated at 0.000009 it is, in your terminology, a 99.9991% problem. ) This is about 19% of the total number of traffic fatalities for that year if we apply that figure to our teen-and-under deaths, the number of kids getting run over in 2016 would be 770 out of almost 82 million kids. NHTSA tells us that in 2016, there were just over 7,000 non-vehicle-occupant fatalities from motor vehicle crashes among all age groups combined. (Assuming 19-year-olds are 'kids'.) But 'motor vehicle crashes' include cases where the child who died was a passenger in a vehicle that crashed, or where they were a passenger in a vehicle that was hit, or where they were driving a vehicle that crashed, or where they were driving a vehicle that was hit. Every year, one in every 20,000 kids in America dies in a car crash.

There were 4,074 such fatalities in 2016, making for an annual death rate of 0.005%. ), 'motor vehicle crashes' are the leading cause of death in that age group. The 2016 census reports the population of 0-19 year olds as 81,880,000. It's more along the lines of 'unheard of'.

You'd struggle to argue that it even qualified as 'rare'. Kids being run over is not a common problem, by any standard. You’re thinking about 99.99999% problems and sacrificing common problems (kids being run over etc.).

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