I think that's gonna be the golden ticket. No so much a vaccine, but something that happened here where an existing drug was found to have the effect of either blocking it, or dampening the effects in a significant way. Find the right combination, then it's just a matter of logistics in making the drug available to everyone. Which is what the FDA is working on with the drug's manufacturer, in issuing an emergency order. I really don't want to get too excited yet, but this has all the makings of one of those "where there's smoke there's fire" things.
I think we get a vaccine down the road, but I've felt since this thing started therapeutics would be the first key to getting back to normal.
Yeah, that’s pretty well always been the expectation. Some form of effective treatment will happen long before a vaccine is available.
Hey, cocaine was the first ever topical anesthesia. And still the very best and most effective one but apparently had drawbacks, such as destructive chemical dependency and disco music.
To be fair Remdesvir was designed to be an antiviral. Unlike Viagra whose unexpected benefit just popped up.
Our county has a population of about 250,000. We have 163 confirmed cases with 16 deaths. They just extended the shelter in place to the end of May. People are freaking the fuck out. And rightly so IMO. Small businesses are just being decimated because 0.06 of the population has the virus.
I was wrong before about how big our health area(how they are counting covid stuff) is, it is roughly the size of Texas, with a population of roughly 288,000. There has been a total of 41 cases with 5 active cases.
Meanwhile in NYC funeral homes look like the Los Zetas have come to town. They’ll be fine, as long as the Blue Angels are around to provide a fly-over.
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-nursing-home-deaths-colorado-public-health/ This is a really interesting scenario. You have people in their 70s and 80s. People with COPD, heart failure, etc. Through the miracle of medicine in the last decade or two they are still alive. If they test positive, is COVID-19 really what kills them? This article also points out, people in hospice care, they are clearly on their way out. If they test positive for COVID-19, is that really what we will say killed them? Bigger picture though, how impactful is this on the true number of deaths? Separately, people dying at home, are there people dying at home from heart attacks and strokes right now that were preventable deaths but for the fear of catching COVID-19 at the hospital?
Elon Musk is channeling his inner Trump. The man is more concerned about money than lives. Einhorn thinks his earning numbers are complete BS too. Smart guy but his priorities are misplaced. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/elon-musk-slams-coronavirus-shelter-in-place-orders-as-fascist.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-pares-gains-einhorn-questions-144533110.html
When 28 of the 65 residents of the home die within ten days, the answer is “Yes, it was COVID-19 that killed them.” https://globalnews.ca/news/6882907/coronavirus-pinecrest-bobcaygeon/amp/ ...and because of that, every single care home on the planet should assume this could happen to them, or worse.
Well, we're breaking the lockdown this weekend. We're letting my best friend, his wife and stepson, camp in our yard for the weekend so they can fish. Normally they would stay in the house, but with all this going on, they just asked to camp. I can probably drink beer with them and maintain that 6 foot separation.
That is terrible. Clearly the elderly and immunocompromised need to be isolated. You get no argument from me. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/...-its-hospitals-will-shift-back-to-normal.html This is another hospital system saying this isn't what we thought it was. They are opening back up to electives. On a separate note, this was interesting: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...l-Guard-protect-tests-federal-government.html Clearly there must be an imbalance of testing kits. California and Florida are testing anyone without symptoms at this point.
Same here. Massachusetts has also started testing random samples of the population to gauge how many people are asymptomatic. There’s a few drive-thru testing sites that have popped up.