"Bring the infected to the red states."
Posted on 10/06/2014 3:54:20 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed
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"Bring the infected to the red states."
Needless to say if Duncan were still in Liberia where he belongs, he would be dead. Would have died last Monday, or Tues/Wed at best. Since he is at an American hospital they are pumping him full of blood and/or clening virus from his blood, but despite that his kidneys and liver are probably toast.
They still can’t control the spread, which would likely hit the most for the people living as homeless or in the slums. Doing so is stupid specifically because you kill off the very poor welfare people who vote Democrat. But then again, maybe they don’t feel a need for welfare recipients anymore so that they can just euthanize them. Either way, the cities where ebola will spread the most are the liberal havens within a state. Dense population + poor and unsanitary = high spread
There were rumors of his death, and the official line is still that he is in critical condition. Hard to say what to believe, there, or whether officials will own up to the entire FUBAR mess that has been made of handling things. If there are no additional cases, it will be a miracle, and at the least should be a wake-up call for all involved.
This is a win-win situation for the likes of Billy Ayers. But as you say, it surely will hit the downtrodden first. The “47 percent” as Romney said.
Morning ABC radio affiliate mentioned he was on respirator and dialysis machine due to kidney failure. ( 7:30 am Eastern)
From the WashPo, “...
Troh’s other daughter, Youngor Jallah, 35, who cared for Duncan before calling the ambulance to get him, was told Sunday by CDC officials that she no longer has to isolate herself and her family.”
“They came today to say it is okay if I want to go out,” she said.....”
It hasn’t been 21 days yet since Jallah was exposed to Duncan, but the CDC says it’s okay for them to go out now?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-ebola-patient-in-texas-fights-for-his-life-his-family-copes-with-stigma-and-isolation/2014/10/05/d3c8b2ac-4cc7-11e4-8c24-487e92bc997b_story.html
What kind of BS machine is this Administration running?
Wow. September 15 is when Eric Duncan handled the infected pregnant woman’s body. But he could have been infected even before that since he lived in same building as the woman and her family who are dead now. He went to the hospital on September 26 but did not seem ill enough to warrant hospitalization.
Maybe the CDC thinks American shores have a different time clock for the infection to manifest.
Wonder which BS are they pulling? They have been a walking contradiction the way they are pictured handling suspected Ebola (Hazmat) and the way they treat incidental contact. (pressure wash guys, and the stupid “i’m wearing the same clothes” Judge. Perhaps the mishmash is by design also?
In fact, the WHO had already reported 623 deaths in Sierra Leone as of October 1. See http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/135765/1/roadmapupdate3oct14_eng.pdf?ua=1. So there's some discrepancy in the numbers being used.
This is why you always need to know the source of the numbers, which is not reported in the article.
If he makes it, obammy will put him at the top of the kidney and liver transplant list and the US will be footing his bill from now on.
It doesn't exist. There were only 3 vials of it. One was used on Brantly and the other two on Writebol. But you can bet if Jesse and Al decide to use this to start another Ferguson, it'll be ten times worse.
Jallah said she did not touch Duncan when she greeted him. She said he was sitting in a chair as she said hello from the door of her mother’s bedroom.
Hogwash. Her story keeps changing. Before, she stated she held his back to help him sit up and drink tea, that her kids had hugged and kissed him, she bought a blanket for him and wrapped him up, and she helped him out to the car. Friday, it was reported her kids were sick with something causing their eyes to run. This is the only article I've seen where she didn't have contact with him.
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...
In its September 5, 2014, Ebola report, the WHO noted that Sierra Leone had a fatality rate of only 39% for its Ebola outbreak.
Here's the washpost story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/for-quarantined-relatives-in-us-ebola-case-extra-cautions-hope-and-prayer/2014/10/02/add51488-4a5f-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html
Because most of the cases were new cases that hadn’t had a chance to die just yet.
Of cases that are diagnosed as ebola (with test), the CFR a month later is over 80%.
If I were to calculate today's dead vs. total known cases, I would skew the mortality rate toward the low side. The infected cases today likely became infected between 4 and 21 days ago, and the outcome has yet to be determined.
Instead, as a rough guide, comparing the number of dead today vs the number of infected (total) 12 days ago would provide an estimate of those total infected versus the outcome for that group.
When you look at the steep growth curves for number of cases and deaths plotted over time, the distortion becomes evident.
In the current outbreak, there are reporting/recording problems as well, and some estimates put the number of cases/deaths as much as 4 times higher than the numbers which have been confirmed.
For past outbreaks, those which burned out and were considerably smaller, the mortality rate ranged from a low of roughly 40% to a high of 90%
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