Monday 31 December 2007

Exploring the Daily Mail's defintion of "soaring"

From The Daily Mail, 26 December 2007: Soaring toll of patients hit by drug side-effects
"Soaring toll of patients hit by drug side-effects
The number of patients suffering serious side-effects from NHS drugs is soaring.

Last year, 4,635 people were taken to hospital suffering adverse reactions from medicines they had been prescribed - up from 4,429 in 2004."

Can 206 people out of 4,635, ever be described as soaring?

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