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In Memoriam
An excerpt from tonight's PBS news:
LAURIE GARRETT: Well, Judy, of course, we all know the only way you are going to have 100 percent for America is to stop the epidemic at its source.
And there, unfortunately, we have some very bad news. Today, for the first time in WHO?s situation ? daily situation report assessing how things are moving along, they had to concede they had no data from Liberia. It?s gotten so bad and so extensive that nobody really can even come up with numbers to put forward.
So the numbers you led with, roughly 9,000 cumulative cases and roughly approaching 5,000 deaths, everybody now admits these numbers are not even close to providing a reflection of reality, that it is almost certainly well over 22,000 cumulative cases at this point and approaching 15,000 or 16,000 deaths.
And as this keeps going out of control, it gets harder and harder to even have a glimpse of the reality of the size and scope of the problem. So while we?re very focused here in America on two cases, let?s keep in mind safety for us is stopping something that is orders of magnitude bigger overseas.
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LAURIE GARRETT: Well, Judy, of course, we all know the only way you are going to have 100 percent for America is to stop the epidemic at its source.
And there, unfortunately, we have some very bad news. Today, for the first time in WHO?s situation ? daily situation report assessing how things are moving along, they had to concede they had no data from Liberia. It?s gotten so bad and so extensive that nobody really can even come up with numbers to put forward.
So the numbers you led with, roughly 9,000 cumulative cases and roughly approaching 5,000 deaths, everybody now admits these numbers are not even close to providing a reflection of reality, that it is almost certainly well over 22,000 cumulative cases at this point and approaching 15,000 or 16,000 deaths.
And as this keeps going out of control, it gets harder and harder to even have a glimpse of the reality of the size and scope of the problem. So while we?re very focused here in America on two cases, let?s keep in mind safety for us is stopping something that is orders of magnitude bigger overseas.
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