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Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by m0zg on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:47AM (#22614481)
Across 100M people that's a cool trillion dollars.
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Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by newsbinator on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:03AM (#22614557)
True, but even if we're only talking dollars, we'd have to compare that trillion to the economic amount lost by not inoculating.
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Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by imtringued on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:53AM (#22616035)
There would be a lot of dead people but the economic impact of those deaths would be pretty insignificant because highest fatality rate is for people in their 80s.
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Re:A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by op00to on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:01PM (#22618087)
I think you underestimate the psycho-social effects of having millions of deaths.
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