Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[PJL]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

Are we making a pool?

It's not just a guess, it's a prediction based on the total cases & deaths so far, with various calculations. It'll end up infecting about 1.6 million according to my model (but once vaccination programs are up and running  the death rate will fall dramatically) by the end of 2017.

Of course this is just reported cases & deaths, and it could be that both figures could be ten times worse.

So it's a guess.

It's a calculated guess..

[Barrister]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

Are we making a pool?

I guess we are now.  I'll take 70,000.

I'll take 70,001.

[Liep]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

Are we making a pool?

I guess we are now.  I'll take 70,000.

I'll take 70,001.

Poor choice, you're out when someone calls 70,002.

[alfred russel]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

Are we making a pool?

I guess we are now.  I'll take 70,000.

I'll take 70,001.

I'll take 420,420.

[Admiral Yi]

It's not just a guess, it's a prediction based on the total cases & deaths so far, with various calculations. It'll end up infecting about 1.6 million according to my model (but once vaccination programs are up and running  the death rate will fall dramatically) by the end of 2017.

Of course this is just reported cases & deaths, and it could be that both figures could be ten times worse.

I thought vaccines were supposed to prevent infection.  You make it sound like they prevent infected people from dying.

[crazy canuck]

It's not just a guess, it's a prediction based on the total cases & deaths so far, with various calculations. It'll end up infecting about 1.6 million according to my model (but once vaccination programs are up and running  the death rate will fall dramatically) by the end of 2017.

Of course this is just reported cases & deaths, and it could be that both figures could be ten times worse.

I thought vaccines were supposed to prevent infection.  You make it sound like they prevent infected people from dying.

Vaccines are designed to prevent infection and in some cases if the vaccine is administered soon after an infection it can also help by jumpstarting the production of antibodies to fight the infection.

[Josephus]

Well, at least it's a start. Have airport personnel  checking for signs of Ebola, though hospital staff are sometimes wrong. Besides, what if a person has Ebola but is not yet symptomatic?

Then it's basically's Schroeders Ebola.

[Jacob]

The ebola that lurks within.

[mongers]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

Are we making a pool?

I guess we are now.  I'll take 70,000.

I'll take 70,001.

You know if we had a journalist on the board, they might take this out of context and write a headline something like "Sick internet trolls, bet on Ebola death toll"  - Daily mail calls for minimum 2 year jail sentence for internet sickos.   

[Josephus]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

Are we making a pool?

I guess we are now.  I'll take 70,000.

I'll take 70,001.

You know if we had a journalist on the board,

[jimmy olsen]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

200,000 cases in West Africa by Christams, minimum.

[jimmy olsen]

[garbon]

Doctor in NYC being tested for ebola who had been in west africa, then apparently "quarantined" himself at home in Harlem.

[derspiess]

My prediction. 60,000 dead before it's controlled (will take a year for cumulative deaths to stabilise).

200,000 cases in West Africa by Christams, minimum.

MERYYR CHRISTAMS

[derspiess]

Doctor in NYC being tested for ebola who had been in west africa, then apparently "quarantined" himself at home in Harlem.

Wonder how he got into the country.