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Here's everything we know about virus.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield warned in a tweet on Tuesday that the "number of cases of severe pneumonia possibly associated with EVD may still be underestimating the true burden of disease for several reasons." However, because people in many areas with infection in at least one type of case-fatality rate have not seen those rate spike, many of them do not believe EVD is a deadly threat to them. Many of them have still not learned that during the 2014-2016 West African outbreak, the fatality rate for the virus itself was about 70 percent. Medical records indicate that the vast majority of patients with EVD in 2020 and 2021 had not received the recommended four doses of the standard treatment for the virus. Tedros also called for an intensified effort to reach remote areas of the country. Since 2014, only a handful of health workers and other medical staff from the affected countries have come to the US for special training and