I heard on the radio that the CDC is expecting 20K US cases.
What I read on a news crawler was that the African disease rate was estimated to possibly go to 20K. I would want to see a corroborative and credible source before I believed what you heard on the radio.
Just sayin’......
This may be what you were hearing about.
If there are 20k cases, there will be 200 million cases.
“I heard on the radio that the CDC is expecting 20K US cases.”
It’s not CDC, it’s WHO, and they’re expecting 20K cases in West Africa (which is a ridiculous low number).
US cases will be sporadic, if there are any.
If the CDC is expecting 20,000 American cases, we will likely get 20 million.
This Ebola virus is highly deadly to populations with a combination of High Crime, Rampant Political Corruption and “Low-Trust’ civic cultures.
That is a description of West Africa...and American urban city centers with large numbers of drug addicts and gangs.
Drug addicts cannot be kept from stealing from the Ebola sick or using Ebola contaminated property because they are by definition completely irrational when they are looking for their next drug fix.
The American Federal government's commitment to open lawless borders and urban core Democratic voters means there is very little chance of preventing Ebola from getting rampantly spread to those kind of places, and Federal resources will be over committed to such ‘lost cause’ areas long past the point when those resources could be better used save lives elsewhere.
And you can count on Federal Judges interfering with local and state public health quarantine efforts if they are directed at illegal aliens or minority communities with powerful political patrons in D.C.