I don't want a vaccine-- I want TREATMENT!!! OK, I'll take a vaccine if they come up with...

[TreasonousBastard]

a good one, but flu vaccines are always tricky and never work 100%.

However, at 5 million in the US and growing, what we really need is a good treatment regimen.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. +1

The illness becomes far less concerning when >99.95% of the infected don't die from it.
Right now, we're at a third of a percent.
We get that down to a tenth of that, there's much more hope.

[gollygee]

2. We need both IMO

And the flu vaccine is not 100% effective but is still helpful.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Agreed. I'm overreacting to the obsession with a vaccine.

[Happy Hoosier]

10. Vaccines work.

They eliminated :

Polio
Smallbox
Measles
and many more.

The treatment for polio? An iron lung.

Vaccines work.

[LisaL]

4. So you want to get covid first?

Because treatment is not given to healthy people.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Seriously? We need both, but if the vaccination doesn't work what then?

[Klaralven]

6. No, but if an antiviral worked as well as antibiotics do for bacterial infections, it would be OK

If the scenario is that you get a fever, see a primary care physician, get a quick test, get a shot of antiviral and you're OK the next day, that would be pretty good.

It would relieve the burden on the healthcare system, reduce transmission by reducing the duration of the illness, and largely eliminate the chronic after effects of having Covid. It would be more like a strep throat.

[Midnight Writer]

8. I want to see people that get sick recover.

[lettucebe]

7. I agree -- we need treatments, I'll wait on vaccine

Not interested in being anyone's guinea pig. Once it's tested and proven safe, sure I'll do a vaccine, but not for a long long time, and if they ever have one it'll really be a miracle. Meanwhile, figure out how to treat this monster.

[Hortensis]

9. "Transform the Body Into a Vaccine-Making Machine"

Went looking for news on treatments and ran into this instead. But so stupid discourse is being lead around by the nose by Trump and media? Turn off the boob tube. Researchers around the planet are working on treatments, testing, and vaccines.

But this could be really big:

Moderna Wants to Transform the Body Into a Vaccine-Making Machine
The U.S. company and its German rival BioNTech plan to use RNA as a messenger inside cells to produce an immune reaction. The advance could upend vaccine development long after the pandemic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-moderna-biontech-covid-shot/

and this popped up also as a reminder that vaccination will always be important:

Testing in Italy found that dogs and cats have SARS-CoV-2 infection rates comparable to those of humans.

I think we need both...badly.