[Gen.Blather]

There just are not enough ebola cases, much less deaths, in the US to make it a major concern.”

If the reinfection rate is higher than 1.0 then you have a high potential for a pandemic. The CDC has estimated the reinfection rate, R, as higher than 1.7. That is near disaster level.

[cuban leaf]

If the reinfection rate is higher than 1.0 then you have a high potential for a pandemic. The CDC has estimated the reinfection rate, R, as higher than 1.7. That is near disaster level.

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Yes, but it depends on empirical numbers. We don’t have that in this country yet.

[cuban leaf]

If the reinfection rate is higher than 1.0 then you have a high potential for a pandemic. The CDC has estimated the reinfection rate, R, as higher than 1.7. That is near disaster level.

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Yes, but it depends on empirical numbers. We don’t have that in this country yet.

To give an example: Let’s say that the guy in dallas slept with 8 women when he was really sick and all eight caught it. Though, tecnically that would be a reinfection rate of 8, it would be a very misleading number.