Early August:
Suspected and Confirmed Case Count: 3069 (137% of last week's)
Suspected Case Deaths: 1552 (126%)
Laboratory Confirmed Cases: 1752 (127%)

End of Aug:
Suspected and Confirmed Case Count: 3707 (120%)
Suspected Case Deaths: 1848 (120%)
Laboratory Confirmed Cases: 2106 (134%)

Nearing end of Sep:
Total Case Count: 6263 (170% of last month's, over twice a month's before)
Total Deaths: 2917 (160% / almost twice)
Laboratory Confirmed Cases: 3487 (165% / very nearly exactly twice)

My friend who'd lost his niece has now lost 2 niblings and his sister.

Anybody else know anybody from Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia?

Also, does the US have a special responsibility for Liberia, do you think?

Is it time to declare martial law, barricade everybody and just take over? I don't mean the US, I mean the world, especially the Guineans, Sierra Leonians and Liberians, but also Ivorians, Malians, Senegalese, and Guinea-Bissauans. Anybody with a border on the 3 affected countries.

And I reiterate the harm that calling all people from Africa Africans instead of Liberians, Kenyans or what have you - now some are afraid of people from Kenya, which is I think farther from Sierra Leone than the East Coast of the US.