I was hoping to see Liberia go flatter after their 3 day lockdown. However, it may be that the 3 day lockdown helped them find cases resulting in a sudden spike.
Posted on 09/24/2014 6:08:15 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
THE WORST-CASE scenarios for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa must not be ignored, even if they strain belief. Everything about this epidemic has been worst-case — the scope, the toll, the response. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published projections Tuesday with an upper range of 550,000 to 1.4 million cases by the end of January. The World Health Organization, which earlier estimated 20,000 cases overall, now predicts that number will be reached by early November.
A profoundly sobering note of caution was contained in a report by the WHO Ebola Response Team, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Given the rapid acceleration of infections, the team warned that Ebola may not be contained or burn itself out, as many experts had hoped. Rather, there is a possibility it “will become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated.” With a case fatality rate of 70 percent, that could mean a long period of death and illness among urban populations of millions.
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Which will make it easier for the BioTerrorists to transmit it here.
If we do so, it is showing American power. That is no longer allowed.
The epidemic is here. It is far too late for drug development, we need to prioritize drug production, medical training, and practicing containment procedures.
And only the most advanced hospitals working with the NIH while getting waivers from the DOT can handle the 20 barrels of ebola hazardous waste per day per patient.
Just wait till they show up in NYC.
Back in the olden days they had a better handle on the situation: it was call "Quarantine".
No, silly. We’re too busy killing children in the womb, letting “gays” redefine sacred institutions, and hanging Mexican flags in our schools.
All it takes is for one suicidal jihadist to get himself infected and to come to the US before he starts showing symptoms.
Much like HIV/AIDS, we’re going to spend billions finding a cure for something preventable (quarantine anybody?).
Nothing to worry about..certainly the African medical researchers are busy working on a vaccine.
Nothing leaves the continent. No crossing borders. 1 month in place quarantine.
Let it play itself out.
Which is it WaPo? Do you want drug companies to develop new drugs, or do you want to prevent them from making profits? You can only choose one or the other.
We have an existing, natural barrier to Ebola. It’s called the Atlantic Ocean, and Ebola cannot cross this boundary without our consent.
Treatments are fine, and a vaccine would be wonderful, but as of today, modern science can cure exactly 0 known viruses.
So why not rely on quarantine, as even the ancients were sophisticated enough to do.
I was hoping to see Liberia go flatter after their 3 day lockdown. However, it may be that the 3 day lockdown helped them find cases resulting in a sudden spike.
I think the lockdown is later than the last date on the graph.
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