What really makes it "not particularly relevant" is the articles that have said it's just not that likely to hop an international flight and show up in the US.

What really makes it "not particularly relevant" is the articles that have said it's just not that likely to hop an international flight and show up in the US. Which is what people really care about. Is that all it takes, one infected person to get on a plane? Or is this really going to be a West African problem - a terrible one, maybe, but it still has way fewer casualties than the civil wars that are all too common in the area. It's one thing for a doctor to say that we're losing the chance to contain this thing, if we don't commit more resources... It'd be another to have them offer a timeline where it starts to impact Europe or the Americas.