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As the CDC has acted, nobody wants to actually lock down an infected area, clean it with appropriate HAZMAT gear, and "level 4" quarantine those exposed. We don
by ctdonath 12y ago
As the CDC has acted, nobody wants to actually lock down an infected area, clean it with appropriate HAZMAT gear, and "level 4" quarantine those exposed. We don't, so we won't.
- danieltillett 12y ago>As the CDC has acted, nobody wants to actually lock down an infected area, clean it with appropriate HAZMAT gear, and "level 4" quarantine those exposed. We don't, so we won’t We don’t even need to do this. All we need to do is get to R0 below 1. What this requires is 70% of patients are treated in properly functioning hospitals. Right now the hospitals in the affected area are totally overwhelmed so in practice no new cases are being treated at all. Putting in place a functioning hospital system on the required scale is now beyond the resources of the countries affected, the WHO, and NGO’s like MSF. The only organisation with the resources and the ability is the US military (with some help from other countries). Every 3 week delay makes the problem twice as large so lets get going right now since full scale mobilisation is going to take months.