Hi, everybody. It's Bill F. It's Wendy Snyder. It's the Bill and Wendy's show. We so appreciate you being here.

Wendy, you have decided to structure today's episode, and I'm with you 100% in a very interesting way. At the beginning of the show, we will talk about the virus and then a little bit more fun in the second half of the show. Is that correct? Well, isn't that the way to do it? I mean, get the bad needs out of the way first, pull off the band-aid, and then have fun. I think so. All right, we'll do it exactly that way. On the line with us right now is Lara Salahi. Lara is an award-winning journalist, an assistant professor of journalism at Endicott College, and the co-author of an article that I dare you not to read.

I dare you to see the title of this article and not read it. It's I studied the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Here's the lesson we didn't learn. It's chilling. Laura, thank you for being here. We

really appreciate it. Thanks so much, Bill and Wendy, for having me. Absolutely.

You know, I just want to refresh our memories, Bill.

Back in January, when we were at the studios and recording, now we're, of course, at home and we're under quarantine, I told you that I was deathly afraid of Ebola.

And for some reason, this coronavirus is not scaring me.

Can I just tell you, fast forward two months, it's scaring me.

Yeah.

And with good reason, how, Laura?

Yeah.

I mean, both of the viruses are very different in the way that they present.

So, you know, they're fear-inducing,

and both of them are fear-inducing, really. You know, the Ebola was, or is a virus that's

not highly contagious, but was something that was highly infectious. So if you got Ebola, if you contracted it, you know, you had a almost positive chance of dying from it.

And, you know, but it was very difficult to get.

But COVID-19 is different, right?

The coronavirus is highly contagious.

But, you know, a majority of cases are not fatal.

That's fortunately.

Is it like 80% are able to get through this?

Is that the percentage-wise?

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