The doc’s name is ‘Gabriel Logan’ from other news articles about the ebola isolation center in Tubmanburg. You don’t get into the isolation center itself as a patient w/o a positive test. They simply don’t have the beds for maybe’s.
Dr. Gabriel Logan in in charge of the ebola isolation center in Tubmanburg.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201408191407.html
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The CDC is optimistically saying the “worst case” can be avoided if we just make a big enough commitment, and that we will do so.
The happy talk from the CDC is nice. We have nothing to worry about HERE.
Meanwhile, in Africa, there are precious few actual results from those “commitments” and the pandemic is growing faster than the commitments even if they are eventually honored (talk is cheap).
The public is NOT being told what happens if the commitment is too little, too late.
Here’s what is actually happening:
1. The medical infrastructure could not handle this in the first place, and much of that infrastructure has already crumbled.
2. The disease is expanding so quickly that basic services will soon begin to fail as well.
So unless we can turn this around, right now, here’s what will happen:
A. What’s left of the medical infrastructure, already ineffective, will collapse. The pandemic will accelerate even more.
B. As the pandemic accelerates, the people needed to keep basic infrastructure going will die. Water, sewer, and electricity will begin to fail. Food distribution will cease.
C. When this begins to happen the population will panic. As many as possible will flee. The process of overall collapse will accelerate.
D. Most of those who are unable to flee will eventually die. Some of those who are able to flee will carry the disease with them.
ALL OF THIS IS EASILY PREDICTABLE.
AT THIS POINT IT IS ALSO THE MOST PROBABLE OUTCOME.
Our “leaders” are full of happy talk about how much they plan to do. Our media glibly repeats the happy talk. Our public is asleep.
(rant: off)
I didn't say there was no positive test. I suggested that a better test, one with fewer false positives, should be used the next time this anti-viral is tried. Sometimes an individual clinician will become overly-enthusiastic about his discovery and will not use the rigorous controls that are needed to evaluate the therapy. I do hope it works but you can't let down your scientific skepticism.