Posted on 09/24/2014 2:14:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MONROVIA, Liberia — The family of the sick man, who had endured Ebola’s telltale symptoms for six days, took him by taxi to treatment centers here in the capital twice, only to be turned back at the gate each time for lack of beds. He died at home, his arms thrashing violently and blood spewing out of his mouth, in front of his sons.
“We had to carry him home two times because they could do nothing for us,” said Eric Gweah, 25, as a team of body collectors came to retrieve the corpse of his father, Ofori Gweah, 62. “The only thing the government can do is come for bodies. They are killing us.”
So many Ebola victims are dying at home because of the severe shortage of treatment centers here in Monrovia, Liberia‘s capital, that they are infecting family members, neighbors and others in a ballooning circle of contagion.
Only 18 percent of Ebola patients in Liberia are being cared for in hospitals.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Meaning their death toll estimates are going to be WAAAAY off
And not in a good direction either...
I asked one of our resident Ebola ‘Experts’ this exact question what happens when the medical system becomes overwhelmed.
A infection rate of .5% of a population of 300,000,000 million is a little over 1,500,000. How long would the medical system last under such?
They didn’t have any snappy answer.
exactly
how would you quarantine 1.5 million people who might not be in the same geographical area? Almost impossible.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
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