41.  Health officials have long warned that the next two-week period is likely to yield the greatest number of sick people.

42.  Hospitals are by definition centers for sick people and, with so many antibiotics in use, the bacteria most likely to survive are those that have developed resistance.

43.  In retrospect, that aptly describes the anthrax attacks that so far have recently left more than a dozen people sick and five dead.

44.  In the last two weeks, Democratic senators have stepped up the pressure by recounting cases of sick people denied care by HMOs.

45.  In particular, they wanted to attract large numbers of healthy people whose premiums would help pay the costs incurred by sick people.

46.  In theory, plans should receive less money for enrolling healthy people than for signing up sick people.

47.  Is it possible for a drug, like estrogen, to fail to protect sick people and yet prevent disease in the healthy?

48.  It can also be spread by sneezes and coughs from sick people.

49.  It may mean that they get thermometers in hospitals and medicine for sick people and some food.

50.  It will penalize health maintenance organizations that avoid sick people and reward those that enroll such patients.