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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you trust the opinion of these folks?

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year's end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the hot zone and people fleeing from the deadly disease.

But how many cases?

No one knows for sure how many infections will emerge in the U.S. or anywhere else, but scientists have made educated guesses based on data models that weigh hundreds of variables, including daily new infections in West Africa, airline traffic worldwide and transmission possibilities.

[i]This week, several top infectious disease experts ran simulations for The Associated Press that predicted as few as one or two additional infections by the end of 2014 to a worst-case scenario of 130.

"I don't think there's going to be a huge outbreak here, no," said Dr. David Relman, a professor of infectious disease, microbiology and immunology at Stanford University's medical school. "However, as best we can tell right now, it is quite possible that every major city will see at least a handful of cases."[/i]

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These predictions may be okay with some people; due to law of averages your chance of contracting Ebola is slim. Especially if you don't live in a large city. It's not okay with my family. We have a lot of nurses and with the 2-day Kaiser strike for safer Ebola training set  for next month, I am very concerned as to what will happen if we get the worst-case scenario-- cases in the hundreds and nurses start refusing to treat.

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We’re only talking about Ebola to the degree that we are now because an uninsured Ebola patient in Texas received minimal attention and was sent home, allowing the disease to gain strength in his body and threaten a continent. For 38 years we sat on our hands, thinking Ebola only affected Africa. Call it racism, greed by a for profit healthcare system or just indifference. Once upon a time, such indifference would never have come home to roost but, the world is a lot smaller now.

Economic injustice, environmental injustice or just depraved indifference to human life, eventually impacts us all. Now, with insurance companies writing Ebola out of renewed/new polices, the for profit model of healthcare/pharmaceutical will ultimately fail at keeping us safe.[/quote]

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