Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins
by ajmurmann on Sunday January 26, 2025 @10:43AM
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Are there any examples of medication that was developed for a disease that came out of GoF where the medication was approved and preventive mass production took place?
Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins
by Retric on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:15AM
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My understanding is success have come more from protocols more than medication.
Take antimicrobial resistance, you need to understand how microbes gain resistance by actually creating resistant bacteria/fungi etc before you can develop efficient countermeasures.
With COVID there was a lot of confusion around using masks and disinfecting public spaces in the early days. A better model of the disease could have been really useful both in the early days and how people responded to mixed messages.
One goal for disease likely to cause pandemics is ultimately to create better treatments for those already infected. There’s a long lag between a vaccine being designed and scaling production and distribution to actually protect people. That means there’s going to be a lot of people infected in an outbreak, including many vaccinated people.