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by lovecg 937 days ago
Awesome, another reason to pick Airbnb over traditional hotels which are actually worse!

> From January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2018, 905 guests were poisoned in 115 identified incidents, including 22 fatalities. Children represented 16% of those poisoned and 27% of fatalities. Type of lodgings were hotels, motels, and resorts of all classes and located in a majority of states.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6744520/#:~:tex....

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Without a person-nights denominator, 22 US CO deaths/14 years is impossible to compare to 19 global CO deaths/10 years. Of course, Airbnb's 0 US CO deaths/(10 years * X person-nights) is less than 22 deaths/(14 years * Y person-nights) for any values of X and Y > 0, but if the ratio was less than 1X:100Y, say, the 0 wouldn't be precise enough to get to a comparison.