{"id":46099,"date":"2014-09-28T23:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-gazette_ebola_the_scorecard_the_virus_is_winning_as_the_world_plays_ca\/"},"modified":"2014-09-28T23:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:30:42","slug":"post-gazette_ebola_the_scorecard_the_virus_is_winning_as_the_world_plays_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46099","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Gazette) Ebola, the scorecard The virus is winning as the world plays catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s nine months into the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, and the situation is going from bad to worse. The outbreak simmered slowly in West Africa from December, when the first case was retrospectively documented, through March, when it was first recognized by international authorities. Now, terms like \u201cexponential spread\u201d\u009d are being thrown around.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the number of cases (about 5,800 as of Sept. 22) and deaths (2,800) has dwarfed the numbers from every reported Ebola outbreak in history. And the case count is doubling every three weeks. Here\u2019s where we stand&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/2014\/09\/28\/Ebola-the-scorecard-epidemiologist-Tara-C-Smith\/stories\/201409280051\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s nine months into the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, and the situation is going from bad to worse. The outbreak simmered slowly in West Africa from December, when the first case was retrospectively documented, through March, when it was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46099\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,119,547,104,524,327,544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-globalization","category-guinea","category-health-medicine","category-liberia","category-nigeria","category-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}