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Re:High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmissio... by chucknthem on Friday March 13, 2020 @01:10AM (#22564917)
Still no vaccine for SARS 18 years later, what makes you think we'll have a vaccine for this?
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Re:High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmissio... by nate_meurer on Friday March 13, 2020 @01:29AM (#22564999)
SARS hasn't been seen in 15 years. Exactly whom did you expect would spend the time and money to develop a vaccine for it?
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Re:High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmissio... by sitkack on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:42AM (#22565488)
Maybe we should develop responses to pathogens that have the ability to wipe humanity off the galaxy.

Given how close SARS and SARS-CoV-2 is, maybe the SARS vaccine could be applied to the current case.

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Re:High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmissio... by tasuki on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:21AM (#22565625)
> Maybe we should develop responses to pathogens that have the ability to wipe humanity off the galaxy.

Not a bad idea, but isn't that a near-infinite set?

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Re:High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmissio... by nate_meurer on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:15AM (#22565600)
I think that's likely, but it's understandably difficult to convince anyone to spend a few hundred million dollars to develop vaccine that might never be used.
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Re:High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmissio... by sitkack on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:44AM (#22567623)
Seems like a pretty good deal right now. Our economic system has structural pathologies that make it extremely difficult to meaningfully organize whole populations.
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Re:High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmissio... by nate_meurer on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:18PM (#22580929)
Yeah, ok, I think I agree with this. I have to believe that a sustained effort to develop coronavirus vaccines would bear fruit, whether actual vaccines or merely processes and knowledge, even if the particular motivating disease was no longer in circulation.
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