It isn't the Black Death (17 to 200 million dead) or the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic (25 million in the first 2 years) but these numbers are pretty sobering.
Meltzer helped produce a report in late September that said that at
current rates of infection, as many as 1.4 million people would become
infected by January. That number, officials stressed, was a straight
extrapolation of the explosive spread of Ebola
at a time when the world had managed to mount only a feeble response.
The more vigorous response underway is designed to bend that curve.
At least people are moving quickly on it and can get this thing under control before it gets worse.
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