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Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:05 PM Mar 2020

Four Ways Experts Say Coronavirus Nightmare Could End (Daily Beast, very good article)

Very informative article; well worth reading in entirety.

As major cultural events are forgotten, workplaces, bars, and restaurants close, and prominent politicians around the world go into quarantine, two simple questions about the novel coronavirus pandemic seem to rise above the rest: How long will this last? And how will it end?

William Haseltine, president of the global health think tank ACCESS Health International, who recently chaired the U.S.-China Health Summit in Wuhan, where the virus likely originated, has a theory.

“There are four ways,” the doctor told The Daily Beast. “One, it peters out with the weather. Two, everybody gets infected, so it’s got no new places to go... so it ends—but that’s a pretty horrible ending. Three is a vaccine, which is about a year away. Fourth way is the most likely: We’re going to have a few drugs, within a few weeks to a few months, that prevent people from getting infected—like PrEP for HIV—and for treatment.”

Let’s break those down.

(Much more at link)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/four-ways-experts-say-coronavirus-nightmare-could-end?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning

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Four Ways Experts Say Coronavirus Nightmare Could End (Daily Beast, very good article) (Original Post) Amaryllis Mar 2020 OP
Could the virus mutate to a less serious form? GusBob Mar 2020 #1
According to the Chinese and Italians lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #2
Immunity plus natural selection for less lethal strains. roamer65 Mar 2020 #5
That at least is one of the more positive discussions/articles I have seen. Let's hope. Thanks. Hoyt Mar 2020 #3
if that jerk was bdamomma Mar 2020 #4
"serious failure of government" soryang Mar 2020 #6
We could have had a jump on this quite a while ago Talitha Mar 2020 #7
Excellent article; thanks for that. K&R crickets Mar 2020 #8
Trump is doing this on purpose so if there was a vaccine it'd get to the US the slowest. There's ... uponit7771 Mar 2020 #9

lapfog_1

(29,191 posts)
2. According to the Chinese and Italians
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:22 PM
Mar 2020

it already has... the so-called S type (original) and the new V type. Both are infecting people around the world... the S type being slightly more lethal.

roamer65

(36,744 posts)
5. Immunity plus natural selection for less lethal strains.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:29 PM
Mar 2020

That is what eventually squelched the 1918 pandemic.

bdamomma

(63,799 posts)
4. if that jerk was
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:27 PM
Mar 2020

prepared and understood the implications of this outbreak early on we would have had a plan in place, but no, not dimwit don, who wants to see the Americans suffer.

Talitha

(6,561 posts)
7. We could have had a jump on this quite a while ago
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 06:15 PM
Mar 2020

but sphinctermouth junked our Pandemic Response Team in 2018.

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
9. Trump is doing this on purpose so if there was a vaccine it'd get to the US the slowest. There's ...
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 06:37 PM
Mar 2020

... little to no reason why we should've have nationwide unfettered testing right now other than this is on purpose.

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