"We finally conquered Ebola" — Feeble attempt at irony? Or is Howie Kurtz really this fucking stupid –> https://t.co/QJK8lyEAmq
— Billmon (@billmon1) November 11, 2014
NYC Dr. Craig Spencer has gone home, virus-free, even if the media didn’t pay as much attention to his recovery as it did to his diagnosis. Thomas Duncan’s family has reached a settlement with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital — “Terms of settlement were not disclosed, but the family’s lawyer said it would be enough to care for Duncan’s parents and his four children, NBC News reported. The attorney also said the hospital wouldn’t charge the family for Duncan’s treatment…” Some of his family members still sound a little bitter. So does this guy..
Three weeks ago, it was a media and political frenzy. Today, not one person in U.S. is being treated for Ebola. #panicpeddling
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 11, 2014
But the epidemic has not yet been smothered in Africa. From the Washington Post, “Governments, groups striving to become as agile as the Ebola virus“:
The news out of West Africa in recent days — good and bad — has demonstrated a fundamental challenge in the fight against Ebola: The virus is more nimble than the human response to it. The landscape of infection and disease has changed dramatically in recent weeks, even as institutions have largely stuck to blueprints drafted months ago…
Plenty of Ebola Challenges Still to Be OvercomePost + Comments (52)