I’ll point this out. In marginal-health-care Africa...with Ebola in full-swing, they still managed to get a 10-percent survivor situation. This was without fancy drugs, modern fever drugs, or liquid foods that are so abundant now in American society. They did it with a malnourished society. They did it with nurses who get maybe thirty-percent of the training that a US nurse gets. And they did it in terrible open-air clinics where they forced people to lay and wait for potential death.
In the US, without an advertised life-saver Ebola-saving drug, we could easily attain 90-percent survivor rates. The idea of pushing a billion over to five drug companies to invent a Ebola drug? I’m of the mind that it’s a total waste of money. Just flushed down the drain.
Yeah, ten percent of those who come down with it will die, period. Those will end up being people with secondary causes (HIV, weak immune system, Bath Salts user, etc). But we can basically beat the disease with what we have, without using billions on questionable drugs yet to be created.
Somehow, I think it might be a good thing that you did not have the ear of Jonas Salk or Albert Sabin...