News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A (possible) solution to Covid-19. Parent comment

Re:A (possible) solution to Covid-19 by ncmncm on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:00AM (#22840106)
Having identified a harmless strain, and presuming regulatory agencies are too slow to be useful, then what?

Send people infected with the harmless version around, after lockdown ends in a month or two, to crowded places?

Would greater virulence be a desirable quality in our reduced strain?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A (possible) solution to Covid-19 by danieltillett on Saturday April 11, 2020 @04:38PM (#22844043)
Well if the regulatory agencies decided that they weren’t going to act then I suspect there would be a grass roots level spread of the strain anyway. This would be the worst way to use such a strain, but I don’t think it would be possible to stop this happening.

I don’t think we will get to that point. If we collect good data from the natural spread of any attenuated strain then I think the regulatory authorities will allow its use on the basis of this data.

[ Parent | on HN ]