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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by pfranz on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:17PM (#22542316)
There are shortages in the supply chain; hand sanitizer, masks, and tests for coronavirus in addition to overwhelming hospitals by sick people. If there aren't open beds or staff (ideally who aren't overworked), people who otherwise would get medical attention will die.

If a vaccine wasn't even in the picture flattening the curve would help with these things.

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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by xur17 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:24PM (#22542353)
That's a good point. Also, my understanding is that antiviral medications might be an option in a "few" months.
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by bluGill on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:24AM (#22545587)
There are a lot of things in the future. Antivirals show promise of working in a few months - but we don't actually know they will work (or for that matter that the virus won't evolve a new unique resistance to them). It will take time to figure out what works best for treatment.
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