North Carolina Institute for Public Health Case - Control Studies for Outbreak Investigations
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People make statements like these all the time. They use odds as a way of describing the likelihood of a particular event in relation to some more general experience. Maybe you do rollerblade; then you probably have had the experience of yelling “How do I STOP?!” But if you have never been rollerblading, you probably have not experienced the terror of having wheels on your feet and not being able to stop.
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