Oh I am so relieved, with the death rate being only 60% just over half of us will die if these idiot doctors make a mistake instead of virtually everybody in the country. The arrogance is breathtaking!
If that were even remotely true we would not have a hunger issue or any other kind of issue in Africa.
Everybody would have died long ago.
I agree with that to a certain extent, but then lets look at it this way.
As the mortality rate drops, so does the threat. 90% to 60% is a vast improvement. One of three will now live, who would have been considered damned to die before.
People live out pretty normal lives now with AIDS. My take is that in time, the same will be true with Ebola.
Either the disease itself is morphing to a less threatening disease, or the medical community is learning better how to treat the people who contract it.
Give it three years and I’ll bet the mortality rate drops to about 30%. If it should spread to more advanced nations, I’ll bet the figure drops precipitously.
I don’t think the resources on the ground on the African continent are such that the disease is being met head on as it would be in the more advanced nations.