Fox's Shepard Smith Blasts Media For "Hysterical," "Irresponsible" Ebola Coverage

US death toll from Ebola: 1

Fox's Shepard Smith Blasts Media For "Hysterical," "Irresponsible" Ebola Coverage

Did he blast himself? He is a part of "the media".

Contrast what Shepard Smith, a television reporter says about Ebola to what Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy says about Ebola:








The following are Dr. Osterholm's qualifications:

"The author of more than 315 papers and abstracts, including 21 book chapters, Dr. Osterholm is a frequently invited guest lecturer on the topic of epidemiology of infectious diseases. He serves on the editorial boards of nine journals, including Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and Microbial Drug Resistance: Mechanisms, Epidemiology and Disease, and he is a reviewer for 24 additional journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, and Science. He is past president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and has served on the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors from 1992 to 1997. Dr. Osterholm served on the IOM Forum on Microbial Threats from 1994 through 2011. He has served on the IOM Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century and the IOM Committee on Food Safety, Production to Consumption, and he was a reviewer for the IOM Report on Chemical and Biological Terrorism. As a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Dr. Osterholm has served on the Committee on Biomedical Research of the Public and Scientific Affairs Board, the Task Force on Biological Weapons, and the Task Force on Antibiotic Resistance. He is a frequent consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Defense, and the CDC. He is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)."

[link to www.cidrap.umn.edu]

What are Shepard Smith's qualifications?

Dr. Osterholm sounds far less certain about what we know about Ebola than Shepard Smith does, yet Shepard Smith has far less experience dealing with infectious diseases and public health issues.

Dr Osterholm starts by saying that he knows less about Ebola than he did 6 months ago. He goes on to say, "For a successful public health response, reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled."



I posted this on another thread but it probably really belongs here.

What moron would watch Faux News?

Watched the Osterholm video and was amazed. I have several family members who have now watched it (all prominent in various medical fields) who feel it's the most honest and accurate info they've heard so far. One even has even heard this guy speak and has the utmost respect and trust in him as a medical professional.

All the news is controlled.

Not just fox.

But at least Fox News addresses obama's screw ups.

The rest of the news stations just kiss his ass.

Did anyone even listen to the report?

No one noticed that he messed up at the 4:10 mark?

Lol

What moron would watch Faux News?

It generates revenue...

FAIL

You need a lesson in how media/marketing actually works.
It's not your numbers for a few days.
It's you long term numbers and traffic.

The nightly news does not work like YouTube.
Otherwise there would be news worthy crisis or drama daily.

Fox's Shepard Smith Blasts Media For "Hysterical," "Irresponsible" Ebola Coverage

What moron would watch Faux News?

Ebola 2014 is Mutating as Fast as Seasonal Flu

The current Ebola 2014 virus is mutating at a similar rate to seasonal flu (Influenza A). This means the current Ebola outbreak has a very high intrinsic rate of viral mutation. The bottom line is that the Ebola virus is changing rapidly, and in the intermediate to long term (3 months to 24 months), Ebola has the potential to evolve.

We cannot predict exactly what the Ebola virus will look like in 24 months. There is an inherent stochastic randomness to viral evolution which makes predictions on future viral strains difficult, if not impossible. One basic tenet we can rely on is this: Viruses tend to maximize their infectivity (basic reproduction number) within their biological constraints (Nowak, 2006).

These evolutionary constraints can be extremely complex, and can include trade-offs between virulence and infectivity, conditions of superinfection, host population dynamics, and even outbreak control measures.

One of the few statements we can make with confidence that the Ebola genome is changing at a specific rate, which is explained below.

Ebola Mutation Rate:

Analysis of the available research suggests that the Ebola 2014 virus is currently mutating at a rate 200% to 300% higher than historically observed (Gire, 2014).

more@ [link to www.operonlabs.com]

At the 4.10 mark in the video, he states that there has been 2 health care worker deaths in Texas.

Is that right??
I thought there was only one death and that was the dude that came from West Africa?