Re:Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good?
by XorNot on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:33PM
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I'd argue that doing that now, when we have a much better understanding of how to treat the virus, is quite a different proposition to the start of the year when we didn't.
Because if it doesn't work, you haven't had a doctor give someone something with unforseen side-effects: they injected them with a deadly virus and killed them (in the worst case).
Now we have treatments like Regeneron which the President received, which most likely made a very big difference in his fairly rapid convalescence - doing it when you have more plausible interventions if it doesn't work is quite different.
I mean all of this stuff is, relatively, going at lightning pace - if we have a vaccine early next year, that's what, 1.5 years between initial detection and immunization for a novel virus? That is breakneck pace.
Because if it doesn't work, you haven't had a doctor give someone something with unforseen side-effects: they injected them with a deadly virus and killed them (in the worst case).
Now we have treatments like Regeneron which the President received, which most likely made a very big difference in his fairly rapid convalescence - doing it when you have more plausible interventions if it doesn't work is quite different.
I mean all of this stuff is, relatively, going at lightning pace - if we have a vaccine early next year, that's what, 1.5 years between initial detection and immunization for a novel virus? That is breakneck pace.