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What scares me the most is the mortality rate. The numbers right now put it at 50%. Catch Ebola. Flip a coin and guess heads or tails. If you guess incorrectl
by Chromozon 12y ago
What scares me the most is the mortality rate. The numbers right now put it at 50%.
Catch Ebola.
Flip a coin and guess heads or tails.
If you guess incorrectly, you die.
It will be interesting to see this number once it (inevitably) spreads to "developed" nations with much higher standards of health care.
- danieltillett 12y agoIf Ebola does become able to spread in western countries (right now it can’t), then unless you are one of the first few hundred to get it then there will be little difference between the first world and third world since all our hospitals would soon collapse.
- mikeyouse 12y ago> What scares me the most is the mortality rate. The numbers right now put it at 50%. Unfortunately, it's actually worse than that. The initial predictions about this outbreak were a 50% mortality rate, later estimations put the rate at closer to 70%. To continue your metaphor; You flip two coins and try to guess heads or tails. If you're wrong on either coin, you die. [1] - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/10/ebola-outbreak-killing-70-percent-victims-20141014132345720164.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/10/ebola-outbreak-...
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