Such a wonderful person to work with

It's a pretty big problem

2022 data:

1,742 deaths from alcohol (mostly chronic)
1,693 from drugs; 455 due to heroin

Alcohol induced deaths have an age-standardised rate of 6 per 100,000

Drug-induced deaths have an age-standardised rate of 6.5 per 100,000

www.aihw.gov.au/reports/alco...

I think it's a good thing.

Heroin has been around for decades.
Naloxone works, and will save lives.
Making it more accessible is useful.

Not the Illawarra?

So - if you missed out on a grant, you're certainly not alone. You're also NOT particularly unlucky.

If you didn't get a grant, AND got food poisoning, you're unlucky (but, food poisoning is pretty common)

If you got a grant (with or without food poisoning in the last 12 months), congratulations!!

Australia's population is around 26 million

There are around 4.1 million cases of food poisoning each year.
www.foodsafety.asn.au/topic/austra...

Therefore, you are MORE likely to get food poisoning, than to get a major research grant

Recent figures

**Investigator grants
2024 - 13.7% (1,437 applicants missed out)
2023 - 14.3% (1,293 applicants missed out)

**Clinical trials & cohort studies
2023 - 11.1% (201 projects missed out)
2022 - 11.6% (213 projects missed out)

**Ideas grants
2023 - 11.1% (1,865 projects missed out)

I couldn't find the age cut-off used anywhere in the paper. It would be useful to have an analysis which included just 0-12 months (where the benefit is likely to be tiny), as well as the older children.

(It'd be great if everyone agreed on "straightforward" terms like "bronchiolitis" and "sepsis")

It's an interesting paper... but it is unclear how old the patients included in the study are

They included "infants and children" with a diagnosis of bronchiolitis.

Depending on where you are in the world, bronchiolitis is an "under one year" diagnosis, or a "up to two years old" diagnosis.