While I’m not a Dr, I did get a passing grade in Middle school biology,and in college I got a passing grade in microbiology.
Anyone with an internet connection,common sense,and a half hour at most can refute Dr. Gupta’s idiotic claims.
Hell,my 5 year old granddaughter can tell you Ebola is a nasty virus and that our government should not allow people from the countries where Ebola outbreaks are occurring to come to the U.S.
Either my granddaughter is super-smart-(of course she is-she’s my granddaughter)- or Dr. Gupta is a tool and a moron.
How in the hell can this asswipe who claims to be a Dr. state that “Ebola is a killer,but it is not very contagious,and not a threat in the United States”?
What. The. Fuck. ???????????????????
What is the doc smokin, snortin or shootin ? or is it a combination of the three?
Can anyone who graduated from medical school really be that stoopid?
And allow themselves to be used as such a tool?
Maybe the NSA has screen shots of goat porn from his computer-or they downloaded Lois Lerner’s missing e-mails to his computer,or they told him they were gonna give the mafia his written confession with a map to Jimmy Hoffa’s burial site,or they threatened him with being strapped into a restraint chair,injected with methamphetamine, and being forced to watch videos of Obama’s speeches 24/7.
The guy seemed to be somewhat intelligent,good at explaining medical shit on the tee vee,and mentally stable-until he wrote the following tripe…
Ebola is a killer, but it is not very contagious and not a threat in the United States.
Ebola is not very contagious, but it’s highly infectious.
Ebola is a frightening disease, no question. It kills more than half the people it infects, and there is no cure. But here’s an important fact: Almost nobody in this country needs to be worried about it.
If you are not a health worker or, for some other reason, in direct physical contact with someone who has Ebola, you are not at risk of getting it. Here’s what we know:
While Ebola is deadly, it is not very contagious. The flu virus is carried through the air, but the Ebola virus is not. You have to be in physical contact with a sick person and get their blood or vomit or feces on your skin.
Even in areas of Africa where the outbreak is spreading out of control, each sick person infects only two others on average. That is called the R-nought value. It is a measure of how contagious a disease is. Compare it to measles, for example, which is airborne like the flu. The R-nought for measles is 18, meaning each sick person infects 18 others on average during an outbreak.
Of course, even an R-nought of two is serious if the virus is allowed to spread unchecked. One person infects two, who infect four, then eight, sixteen, etc.
That is what is happening in West Africa. In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the public health systems were not able to contain the outbreak, so it has become an epidemic. But that could not happen in this country, which has a robust public health system. Even if more Ebola-infected people come here, we can be sure the virus will be contained.
“But that COULD NOT HAPPEN in this country,which has a robust public health system”
“Even IF more Ebola-infected people come here,we can be sure the virus will be contained”.
Say WHAT !? Remember-all of our hospitals are prepared to deal with Ebola-Texas Health Presbyterian showed just how WRONG that claim was…
We have a grand total of THIRTEEN BL-4 beds available-in the ENTIRE USA!!!!
What happens when patient # FOURTEEN shows up-Hmmmmmmmmm?????????????
What A Dolt.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/news/ebola-what-every-american-needs-to-know/