Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Very good point. We could have setup an area to threat them in over there or some deserted island. But that would be racist.
It's too late now.
Actually we can take an island and set up a comprehensive Treatment Center and keep it isolated.
I think they finally closed down the Plum Island facility, no one really knows exactly what the research done there was but I keep thinking it was more than research on farm animals.
Carson is wrong. Flat out wrong.
Ebola has an incubation period of 21 days. Some strains have a 24 day incubation period.
Anyone can travel anywhere else in the world in 21 days, multiple places, and then end up in the United States before they show symptoms.
Ebola is coming to the United States. We can gain experience in treating these few American patients under the best conditions possible, allowing us to learn how to treat it. Or we can panic and fly blind when it gets here.
Carson wants the infectious disease specialists to fly blind. That is cowardly and short-sighted.
That “MD” after his name doesn’t stand for “Minor Deity”. He doesn’t know everything, and he isn’t an infectious disease specialist.