We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
LAURIE GARRETT: Well, the numbers are really unknown. I mean, this is the big problem we have, is that because the hospitals are completely overfull, people are literally dying on the sidewalks and in the dirt roads outside the hospitals, not able to get admitted. We know that the majority of people are now keeping family members in their homes, not bringing them forward. And so, all the numbers you hear are a gross undercount, and they represent only laboratory-confirmed cases. So, most of the people on the ground are saying that it’s understated threefold, which would say that we have something in the neighborhood of 12,000 to 15,000 cumulative cases already.
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/15/underestimated_and_ignored_growing_ebola_epidemic