Posted on 11/02/2014 8:43:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Infectious disease experts predict anywhere from a mere one or two additional cases of Ebola to a worst-case scenario of 130, according to simulations conducted for the Associated Press.
Almost all of the predicted cases will be healthcare workers returning from West Africa.
"I don't think there's going to be a huge outbreak here, no," Dr. David Relman, a professor of infectious disease, microbiology and immunology at Stanford University's medical school, told the AP. "However, as best we can tell right now, it is quite possible that every major city will see at least a handful of cases."
A total of eight patients have currently been treated for Ebola in the U.S.
Only two of them contracted Ebola within the U.S., and both were healthcare workers who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia.
Both nurses recovered and have been released.
Dominic Smith, a pandemic risk expert, ran a simulation for the AP that projected 15 to 130 cases in the U.S. before the end of the year.
Another expert, Northeastern University professor Alessandro Vespignani, is more worried about the disease making its way to Asia.
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That could be 130 ICU’s potentially, staffs and facilities fully consumed and turned into Level 4 biohazard wards, since so far each ICU (even Emory and Nebraska) has been able to manage about 1 patient
and this in the middle of flu season
and it could shut down entire hospitals for lack of staff... or if ebola is linked to airborne droplet transmission
I hope one of them is named Kaci Hickox.
There is only one explanation for this — global warming has prevented the spread of ebola in the US!!
Anything over a dozen or so will continue to spread. With just that many you will have a couple of contactees that show no symptoms and are given clean bills of health only to get sick at 25 or 35 days. The progression from there will be unnoticed beyond noting the flu that everyone has until the ebola becomes obvious. Then it is too late. There will be many untraceable unremembered contactees.
A couple of dozen cases, deliberately imported in non Americans being brought to the Modern American hospitals will overwhelm the whole system in America and most likely get away from the. I believe that is the intention. The Moslem President of the worst Infidel nation will get his heroic place in Islamic history.
After the election......?Then what?
And not a single case was necessary, if we were governed by sane people.
There are rumors that we already have more than that.
A few days ago I started seeing mentions here and there online. In saner times I would have brushed them off, but the last few years a lot of things have happened that I never thought I’d see happen, so it’s harder to dismiss some things. But there are whispers that ebola is already in all 50 states, that people who were suspected of it have been “disapeared”, that medical workers have been threatened with firing or worse if they tell anyone about it.
Like I said, rumors. Not proof. But then, back during the Iraq invasion I kept seeing messages from soldiers who swore they had seen Saddam’s WMD stockpiles, and now it’s been proven they were telling the truth. I wouldn’t put it past the government to do anything anymore.
That's possible, but in a world so electronically connected, it would be quite easy to spread the word anonymously.
Best case scenario: Ebola hits the WH.
Yes you would hope most healthcare workers would have the integrity to take action.
130 cases x $1,000,000
did you notice they are ‘managing’ the ebola information?
the latest update was oct 27th w/ 13703 cases. they just changed it today from oct 27th to oct 29th and from 13703 cases to 13540.
they need to manage the data because the graphs show it going absolutely exponential (doubling every month).
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