Quote:"We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare in the expectation that this could be bad,"
Do they know something that they are not talking about publicly yet, or are they just covering their a*s in case things do get out of hand ?
Numbers from this morning (most of these are from China, so their accuracy may be suspect, but they are what we've got)
Infected - 80329 (x)
Dead - 2707 (y)
y/x = death rate as a decimal
2707/80329 =0.033698913
0.033698913 x 100 (death rate as a %) = 3.36989
so 3.4% death rate
100 -3.4 = 96.4 (survival rate)
96% of the people that get infected DON'T die.
According to the numbers that are being released publicly anyway.
I don't remember any such warnings from the CDC during either of the Ebola outbreaks in recent years even though that disease had a death rate of something like 80% and there were a few cases in this country and at least one death.
What's got them spooked this time?