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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by forgottenplans on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:46PM (#22658496)
We can’t build temporary quarantine centers, hermetically sealed units, gas mask or ventilators. We could predict all this and did, but incompetence. We could had made a coronavirus vaccine that could had potentially worked now, years ago. We could have general tests or fast tracked specific tests months ago.

All this seems like a much bigger problem than the virus itself. Our system is incapable of being efficient, effective or proactive.

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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by jacquesm on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:49PM (#22658519)
> We could had made a coronavirus vaccine that could had potentially worked now, years ago.

That isn't really true. Some viruses are more susceptible to vaccination than others but all have one thing in common: about 12-18 months between the first confirmed sighting of a virus and the time to make a vaccine if one is possible. And for plenty of Viruses we have not been able to make a vaccine and some of those are coronaviruses.

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