Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab

Re:Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab by rallison on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:09AM (#23077015)

The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic killed in the ballpark of 10k people in the US. I don't recall ever seeing mainstream news outlets reporting in the ballpark of 100k recorded deaths.

It's been 7 weeks since the Imperial College model that predicted up to 2.2 million deaths in the US, that used an infection fatality rate of 0.9% as an assumption. The best science still has us in the 0.5% to 1% range for IFR, still putting us in the 1-2 million range if let ourselves get to herd immunity levels without a vaccine.

I think we'll avoid getting to 1-2 million, but it'll be because we take actions along the way to push some/most infections to post-vaccine or post-effective treatments.

> Try to reach it without a vaccine, and millions will die.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronaviru...

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Re:Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab by steveeq1 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:03PM (#23081504)

We are going to have nowhere near 1-2 million deaths from this. and the IFR range is around 0.2%, not 0.5 - 1%.

And of course we will get herd immunity soon, with the way exponentials work. We are re-opening the economy! We will reach herd immunity far quicker than we will get a vaccine.

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