A Lot of People Are Affected by Alzheimer’s

I think I know what message they were trying to get out, but don’t you agree this ad reads a little funny? Apparently every 70 seconds someone develops Alzheimer’s, and when they do 5.3 million Americans are affected by it. I don’t believe that is mathematically possible for one person to affect 5.3 million people. Nobody knows that many people!

It is estimated that 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer’s Disease, and if each of those Americans affect another 5.3 million, that’s (calculating…carry the one….divide by gross national product of Uganda) 27,030,000,000,000 Americans affected! Over 27 quadrillion! Considering there’s not even 7 billion people on the entire planet, I guess I’ll have to assume some crossover.

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