There's something funny about those numbers at this point. The WHO was saying 53% 5 days ago based on the 4,485 people who had died out of 8,996 cases reported. They had 52.9% in this Wiki as of the moment I made the post earlier today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...hs_of_the_Epidemic_and_Forward_Projections-50 Somebody is monkeying around with the data here. The current number of people who have died of Ebola in this outbreak is 49.9% of the reported cases. The additional percentage was likely because the patient load is higher now than it has been. As of September 23rd there were 2,800 deaths reported from the outbreak in 5,800 cases. If you believe the current numbers in the Wiki there have been 1,650-ish new deaths in the last 3 weeks and 3,200-ish new cases reported. WHO's report says there will be 550k to 1.4 million new cases by January at the rate we're going. This is a campaign designed to force the world to act in West Africa to bring the outbreak under control. Note that mortality rates for health care workers is 56% in NEJM's study vs 70.9% for non-health care workers. What that suggests is that if you don't get adequate medical treatment this EVD kills you although not at the rate of some earlier outbreaks and if you do it's break even, which is what the meta data kind of suggests anyway. There is a significant factor in terms of the rolling death rate when this many new cases are reported but there's still something really funny about the way the data has been presented at this point. I think WHO, the CDC and the Administration are presenting the case in the most forceful way possible right now. I think they see politics getting in the way of a concerted effort to prevent Ebola from becoming endemic at this point. If it really does go to a million cases by January we're never going to be rid of it. It's going to establish natural harbors outside the rain forest and we're going to be dealing with recurrent outbreaks for the rest of our lives. Any political reaction to this that doesn't recognize that basic fact is going to do unimaginable harm to the American public over the forseeable future.
Was alluding to the fact that the CDC is now going to use a SWAT team approach. Incidents where potential infected ppl hop on planes won't be an option because they will be on house arrest against their will etc... Government will violate rights and justify for "national security" Ppl won't be allowed to use public places etc...
That doesn't sound good but I don't know what else they're supposed to do? The governments #1 priority is to protect the people and allowing ebola patients to run wild seems like a pretty blatant violation of that. There needs to be very clear communication and transparency here.
My mother just called me and told me Ebola has arrived in CT. Is this true? She also is asking me to finally get a flu shot...lol
2 dumbass students were in Liberia researching Ebola...................Has Ebola like Symptoms... Good news is that Yale's Hospital is kickass (unlike that useless Texas hospital)...
I don't think there is any legitimate argument as to why we need to be accepting commercial flights from outbreak areas at this point. Several other countries have already cutoff those flights. The real solution is to fix the outbreak areas but why allow people to fly here commercially from there? Seems pretty stupid to me but there has been a lot of stupid involved in this whole thing so far.
No reason to let anyone from Liberia into this country right now...That place sounds like a Ebola war zone...This stuff is super scary
Optically stupid, but fairly mild infringement if the effect is to encourage confidence in the government response. Although, whichever idiot first used the term "SWAT team approach" should be sentenced to a seat in coach on a plane en route to Ferguson, stocked to the gills with feverish passengers, and forced to show a photo id on election day. On the other hand, if it's civil rights claims you're looking for, seems that whitey continues to remain fairly well untouched by this here - what are we calling it, a virus? Worse still, isn't it convenient that Thomas Duncan suffered a lightning fast death, whilst certain privileged white folks like that NBC cameraman and the doctor from UMass Medical Center seem to be ... ummm... <boy, phew, this is uncomfortable> ... recovering rather well. And that's before we even begin to engage Br4d in the long-winded discussion on the history of Liberia.
They are going there to try to contain the outbreak. The only way to accomplish this is to contain it where it is. Over there. Before it comes over here. Which it most certainly will do if its not contained. Over there. You really need to look in the mirror every time you think to call someone stupid. You are off the fucking charts stupid.
I'm calling non essential people stupid...NBC reporters...These CT students...People visiting family.
The 2nd nurse with from Texas is going to CDC Atlanta. The original nurse from Texas is going to NIH in Maryland. They have quarantined a few folks from Ohio that were in direct contact with the 2nd nurse. The Connecticut student is in isolation. I think we are at 2 known cases of non healed Ebola in America.
Heard through the grapevine that there are A LOT more patients in the hospitals than what is being reported. They are trying to hide everything as best they can (cant blame em because who would want the media attention to descend on a hospital?)
