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Posted on 10/29/2014 10:38:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
SUAKOKO, Liberia — For days this month, the ambulances from this Ebola treatment unit went out in search of patients, only to return with just one or two suspected cases. And many times, those people ended up testing negative for the disease.
“Where are the patients?” an aid worker wondered aloud as colleagues puzzled over the empty beds at the International Medical Corps treatment unit here in Bong County, Liberia, which opened in mid-September.
Around the country, treatment centers, laboratory workers who test for Ebola, and international and national health officials trying to track the epidemic have noticed an unexpected pattern: There are far fewer people being treated for Ebola than anticipated.
As of Sunday, fewer than half of the 649 treatment beds across the country were occupied, a surprising change in a nation where patients had long been turned away from Ebola units for lack of space.
Now, new admissions to treatment centers are dropping or flatlining, the number of samples being submitted to Ebola laboratories has fallen significantly, and the percentage of people testing positive for the disease has dropped as well.
“The numbers are decreasing, but we don’t know why,” said Malin Lager, a spokeswoman at a Doctors Without Borders treatment center just outside Monrovia, the capital. Its vast campus of white tents, which has a capacity for 253 patients, had only 90 on Sunday.
“It’s too early to celebrate,” Ms. Lager said.
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Patient burnout?
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Cowering in their 5-star digs? That's your typical UN in-country gig, is it not?
If the hospital beds are empty then why is Obola sending the Army to Liberia to build more hospitals?
That guy reminds me of Josh Groban. Maybe he can compose a song with that title.... :)
Obozo is deeply saddened.
Maybe or could be they have decided to refuse to come in as they know it’s likely they’ll die.
HMMM
and yet WHO reports a 13% jump in cases just from 4 days ago including in Liberia( see thread 4 or 5 above this one)
who should we believe
Bong county sounds like a really mellow place to live though don’t it?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
A while back, a very intelligent and mathematical FReeper posted a statistical study of projected Ebola spread. Now I can’t find that thread.
Did anyone bookmark it, and would you please post a link?
FR scouter did several progressive graphs ping or FR mail and request a repost
So far her tracking has pretty much proved out given B minus C plus data reliability
You may have hit on something there. The patients maybe are in the army hospitals where no one can see them or count them.
Found it! Thank you so much.
Not that NOT going to hospital would be a bed of roses either, but if I had to bet, I'd bet you've hit on the most plausible explanation.
Oh good. Please post the link here for one and all.
Burned out already?
I’ve been to Liberia. There are no 5 Star properties.
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