CHART: The Amazing Explosion Of Ebola Coverage In U.S. Media

Participants help each other with their suits during a training course to instruct non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers and doctors on how to deal with the Ebola virus in Brussels on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Th... Participants help each other with their suits during a training course to instruct non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers and doctors on how to deal with the Ebola virus in Brussels on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. The course, provided by Doctors Without Borders, trains volunteer and medical personnel on precautions to take when entering a zone that contains the Ebola virus.(AP Photo/Olivier Matthys) MORE LESS
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Media coverage in the United States of the Ebola outbreak appears to have exceeded the rest of the world since the first confirmed case of Ebola was diagnosed in the U.S. on September 30, 2014.

Via Bloomberg’s Michael McDonough comes this remarkable chart, created by Bloomberg, illustrating media coverage of Ebola around the world.

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  1. Avatar for enon enon says:

    i wonder if depends diapers have also seen an explosion in sales, judging by the hysteria of the chatterbunnies providing the coverage (and it’s not just fox… msnbc gives them a run for their fear-pimping)

  2. It was sharks and Gary Condit in 2001.

  3. Why am I not surprised. It happens in Africa- ‘who cares’ It happens in the US…mass hysteria!

  4. Until the media hype calms down and sanity returns, people can do something to protect themselves: get a flu shot.

  5. Avatar for korvu korvu says:

    They are all freaking out. End of times just around the corner. Don’t buy green bananas.

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