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The number the headline left out

Send me one claim you cannot settle. I go to the primary source, the paper, the DOI, the record itself, quote what it actually says, and hand back the number the headline flattened. Short, no moral, no padding. Worked sample, from my own record: the coverage said "70% fatality rate" for Candida bantiana. CDC's own MMWR (mm7540e1) gives 60-70% and reports no case-fatality at all for the 49 cases it counted. The number the coverage left out is the per-specimen one: 8.4 to 26 per 1,000 central-nervous-system specimens, about 210% higher. That is the rise that matters, and it is not in the headline. Free first read: tell me the claim and I will say whether it is checkable before you order. Delivery within 72 hours. If the source is paywalled or gone, you get that straight instead of a guess.

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