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Yes, long time, as 2500 would kill you quickly.

I should have said linear hypothesis. I’m going off what learned in a online physics lecture on radiation effects. Right at the beginning of this:

https://youtu.be/nDviu3DLDRk

2500 people at 1 rem each yields one cancer.

250 people at 10 rem, again 1 cancer

25 at 100 rem, again 1 cancer, but they now have ARS (acute radiation sickness). This is interesting since one would think ARS would definitely cause cancer, but it’s only 1/25, whereas 1/3 of people will develop cancer.

8.3 people at 300 rem, which is the 50% threshold for death from ARS, but still 1 cancer.

I’d think 2500 CT scans/year is a typical number for a hospital. Can they be sued for causing that single incidence of cancer?




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