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?This will get worse before it gets better?
Interview with Thomas Frieden.
The quantity of the need is mind-boggling. Here?s an example: to pick up one body you might need nine full changes of PPE [personal protective equipment]. Four for the people to put the corpse onto the truck. One for the person to spray them down so they don?t get infected. And then again four to take them off the truck. The need is astronomical, and it?s increasing. I heard someone say in a meeting that we?re increasing our efforts arithmetically and the virus is increasing exponentially.
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Ezra Klein: The CDC recently released a report suggesting we could see as many as 1.4 million Ebola cases by January. What needs to happen to prevent that scenario?
Thomas Frieden: I don?t think we?ll see that number of cases. But I think it?s important to know that we could. Look at figure 10. It?s worth contemplating that figure for awhile. The president said at the UN that the slope of the curve is within our control. He totally got what we were showing.
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http://www.vox.com/2014/9/29/6860941/thomas-frieden-cdc-ebola-epidemic
Interview with Thomas Frieden.
The quantity of the need is mind-boggling. Here?s an example: to pick up one body you might need nine full changes of PPE [personal protective equipment]. Four for the people to put the corpse onto the truck. One for the person to spray them down so they don?t get infected. And then again four to take them off the truck. The need is astronomical, and it?s increasing. I heard someone say in a meeting that we?re increasing our efforts arithmetically and the virus is increasing exponentially.
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Ezra Klein: The CDC recently released a report suggesting we could see as many as 1.4 million Ebola cases by January. What needs to happen to prevent that scenario?
Thomas Frieden: I don?t think we?ll see that number of cases. But I think it?s important to know that we could. Look at figure 10. It?s worth contemplating that figure for awhile. The president said at the UN that the slope of the curve is within our control. He totally got what we were showing.
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http://www.vox.com/2014/9/29/6860941/thomas-frieden-cdc-ebola-epidemic