WHO Chief Warns 'There Might Never Be' A Silver Bullet For Coronavirus

[Nevilledog]

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/03/898619556/who-chief-warns-there-might-never-be-a-silver-bullet-for-coronavirus

Despite progress made on a vaccine against COVID-19, "there's no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," the World Health Organization's director-general warned on Monday.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' words marked six months since the organization declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. Tedros said that at that point, on Jan. 30, "there were fewer than 100 cases and no deaths outside of China." Three months later, the world had 3 million reported cases of COVID-19 and more than 200,000 deaths.

Six months on, the figures have only worsened: now 18.1 million global cases and more than 690,000 deaths, according to the tracker at Johns Hopkins University.

Tedros noted multiple vaccine candidates are in the third phase of clinical trials and expressed hope that a number of them will be effective to prevent infection by the coronavirus.

*sniff*

[louis-t]

1. The only positives I see are: ball players not spitting

and cashiers don't lick their fingers before counting back your change.

[brush]

2. There are so many anti-vax yahoos, we will probably never be free...

of this virus. I will take a vaccine once it's proven safe and effective every year I guess like I do a flu shot.

Let the idiots keep infecting themselves.

[Shermann]

3. Have there been any silver bullets for any of the world's thorniest problems of late?

I've worked a lead role on a lot of bitching problems during my career, and the first thing I usually do is call off the damn searches for the silver bullets. Time to roll up the sleeves and get to doing the real work.