re: #300 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Contradiction? No problem:

wheat-dogghazi-bola: “within the sample… 3% fell outside the 21-day period”
Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut : “There has never been an observed case of ebola incubating for more than 21 days”

Just let me know if that 3% in the sample for the scientific study was observed or not. (Not to mention that last 2%).

And if it’s unobserved, it still contradicts this post, which says that right wing sites are misleading about the incubation period.

As far as the number of cases at day 42, who cares? Pretty sure the point is the number of cases between 21 and 42. Which is not insignificant. Let’s see, if 8,900 people in Africa contracted ebola since March, and 5% will show symptoms after 21 days, and a train leaves Monrovia headed west at 30 kph… where’s my calculator?!?

But seriously, if the best math, science, whatever that we have predicts that 3-5% of ebola cases incubate longer than 21 days, then you tell me: is 21 days the maximum incubation period for ebola? I’m going with “no.”