This morning, I decided to write down all the numbers and amounts of Hepatitis claims to hang on the bulletin board in front of me. This would allow me to watch the quantities change or jump around. I started with 2011, because that is what pops up first. You can see this when you click on BVA decisions above.

I wrote them all down. Yesterday or late Friday night, the BVA uploaded the last of 2012 or the majority. The number was 20, 537  of 668,105 claims appealed. This morning the number was  16,356. That’s odd. So I clicked back to 2010 and there were only 1,508.  2009 was 1417 and so on. So I gather there is a major epidemic afoot and I’m planning on letting the CDC in Atlanta know it. Even if the figure is 16K+, that’s a major uptick from 1508 in case anyone is math-challenged. And the kicker is that apparently there wasn’t one single claim appealed for Hep in 2003. Numbers are our friend.  I’ll keep you posted (get it?) Posted? Never mind.