Re:New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential t...
by randallsquared on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:07AM
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March or April compared to now seem to indicate we do have a greatly increased standard of care, resulting in a much higher infections per death ratio.
Re:New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential t...
by uw_rob on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:15AM
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This isn't necessarily true - there is a implied assumption that the infections are still following the same distribution among people with different risk factors, but that isn't necessarily the case.
Not the OP but the expectations were that in 6 months' time we would have gotten better at treating at least "some" of the disease. No-one knowledgeable enough expected a vaccine by this autumn but some people were hoping for a greatly increased standard of covid care in August 2020 compared to February 2020.
Re: the vaccine thing, I don't think that's logistically possible to give the vaccine to billions of people in less than a year (even a 50% covid vaccination rate for our species would mean administering 3.5-4 billion vaccines), so 2022 at the earliest looks like our best bet (hoping that we'd actually have the vaccine by early 2021). Looking at past vaccination campaigns I personally think that even a 3-5 year timeframe looks optimistic, but that's just me.