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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 its got no new places to go... so it endsbut thats a pretty horrible ending. Three is a vaccine, which is about a year away. Fourth way is the most likely: Were going to have a few drugs, within a few weeks to a few months, that prevent people from getting infectedlike PrEP for HIVand for treatment.
Lets break those down.
(Much more at link)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/four-ways-experts-say-coronavirus-nightmare-could-end?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Some say that could have happened in 1918
lapfog_1
(29,191 posts)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)That is what eventually squelched the 1918 pandemic.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)bdamomma
(63,799 posts)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.
soryang
(3,299 posts)two and half months notice and they did nothing.
Talitha
(6,561 posts)but sphinctermouth junked our Pandemic Response Team in 2018.
crickets
(25,952 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... little to no reason why we should've have nationwide unfettered testing right now other than this is on purpose.