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This paper is giving a range of 1.4 to 1.9 for the entire epidemic, which corroborates the estimates we made of R0 more than a month ago.

It also corroborates that the R0 is increasing.

The doubling period used to be 30 days. That has dropped to 22 days. All of this from official WHO numbers, without applying their ‘fudge factor’ of 2X to 4X their stated numbers.

I agree with the testimony of the two witnesses in the second panel at the Congressional hearing on Ebola last week - they need to mobilize something massive and coherent immediately, not in months.

While they are not stating that the disease is airborne, the disease is airborne. That happened last Thursday.

They are attributing the spread of it to the lack of proper containment, yet there have been over 300 medical personnel infected at this point.

Many of those had the resources to protect themselves, most notably, Nancy Writebol. Her job was to clean equipment and gear. No patient contact.

They burned her personal effects because they no longer believe they could be cleaned.