Masha: I believe its one out of 33,000 in the general public in the US get GPA (3 per 100,000 IS usually what's cited). To give you some perspective: the odds of dying in a car crash are 1 in 103. This is an INCREDIBLY RARE disease: I'm amazed they even treat it to be honest. While half the country curses him, you can thank Dr. Fauci and his team for figuring out Pred + Cytoxan was a magical treatment in the 70s/80s.
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He developed effective therapies for formerly fatal inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly Wegener's granulomatosis), and lymphomatoid granulomatosis. A 1985 Stanford University Arthritis Center Survey of the American Rheumatism Association membership ranked Dr. Fauci’s work on the treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and granulomatosis with polyangiitis among the most important advances in patient management in rheumatology over the previous 20 years."
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/anthony-s-fauci-md-bio
Fauci wants me to wear the mask, I'll wear the mask and not ask any questions whatsoever.