While I think MSM is running at the mouth, filling air time...there are STILL those who DO REPORTING.
Anderson Cooper is a thoughtful and thorough narrator...Dr. Sanja Kupta is credible and concise.
The questions raised and the information being delivered is troubling,at best. The errors/omissions on behalf of the Texas Hospital are INCOMPREHENSIBLE. (bio hazard waste/materials INADEQUATELY dealt with....stacking up to the ceiling per Nurses Assoc,)
AND a couple of Microbiologists AGREE...there are UNknowns that must be taken into account and an ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION is probably prudent...NOT seeing alot of that these last several weeks.
One of the things that I was taught during the annual Chem Warfare training I sent through for 20 years while I was active duty, what when going thru decon...the last thing that is taken off is the face-mask.
It is usually the first thing that untrained people reach for when the "all clear" is given.
The only way we were able to refrain from reaching for that mask and removing it as the first thing was by constant and consistent training and practicing.
ScienceChic wrote: underfunded for necessary PPE/equipment in all hospitals, and general health care workers under-trained for critical situations like this.
Underfunding or misappropriations? Or is this incorrect?
"So now the federal health bureaucrats in charge of controlling diseases and pandemics want more money to do their jobs. Hmph. Maybe if they hadn't been so busy squandering their massive government subsidies on everything but their core mission, we taxpayers might actually feel a twinge of sympathy.
At $7 billion, the Centers for Disease Control 2014 budget is nearly 200 percent bigger now than it was in 2000.
Those evil, stingy Republicans actually approved CDC funding increases in January larger than what President Obama requested.
What are we getting for this ever-increasing amount of money? Answer: A power-hungry busybody brigade of politicized blame-mongers.
Money, money, it's always the money. Yet, while Ebola and enterovirus D68 wreak havoc on our health system, the CDC has been busying itself with an ever-widening array of non-disease control campaigns, like these recent crusades:
ScienceChic wrote: That being said, we have a ways to go with this outbreak; athough, if this model is validated, then it appears that it will be less severe than the WHO is currently predicting. This Math Model Is Predicting the Ebola Outbreak with Incredible Accuracy
Written by Michael Byrne
October 14, 2014
Modeling how disease spreads early in an outbreak is a major challenge as sample sizes remain low and variables high. But a recently-developed method of making short-term outbreak projections called the IDEA model has shown promise, and is even doing an excellent job of tracking the current Ebola outbreak.
"If validated, the implications of such a finding may be profound," wrote the model's creators in an open-access 2013 paper in PLOS One, "e.g., the ability to project, with a high degree of accuracy, the final size and duration of a seasonal influenza outbreak within 2 weeks of onset."
The graph above shows how the model is faring with the current Ebola outbreak. So far, it's nearly perfect. If the IDEA model continues to predict the epidemic with the same accuracy, we can expect Ebola to start burning out in December, with a total of 14,000 cases. Currently, according to the CDC there are or have been 8,400.
It looks like that model wasn't too far off. Ebola Infections Fewer Than Predicted by Disease Models
Improvements in health care and other uncertainties make accurate forecasts difficult
December 8, 2014 |By Seema Yasmin
more than 17,000 people have been infected and more than 6,000 have died since the outbreak began.
From the CDC
. This result is great news for vaccine development. The more stable it is, then an effective vaccine doesn't have to be re-created soon.
All viruses mutate or change. Even as #Ebola mutates, it would be very unusual for it to change how it is transmitted. Scientists don’t think #Ebola will change to become more easily spread. Learn why in this update from CDC:
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An experimental vaccine against Ebola virus seems to be safe and commands a strong immune response against the virus, according to tests in 20 healthy people in the United States. The results of the phase 1 trial are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“The next steps are to move ahead with a larger efficacy trial in West Africa.”
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