I've read all about pending vaccinations, but shit about CURES . . .

[Worried2020]

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Have I missed something?



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[drray23]

1. no. we dont have cures. we just treat symptoms

and try to keep people alive until they recover.

[Karadeniz]

2. Hasn't Emory U. announced that they might be onto something?

[Marie Marie]

3. Preliminary testing so, don't know if this is anything but

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214658289

[Pantagruel]

4. Another "maybe"

A COVID cure? Georgia State University discover new antiviral drug that completely suppresses virus
ATLANTA — Researchers at Georgia State University say they have discovered a new antiviral drug that completely suppresses transmission of COVID-19 within 24 hours.

The drug, called Molnupiravir (MK-4482/EIDD-2801), is taken orally as a pill. Channel 2′s Tom Regan was at GSU, where he talked to Dr. Richard Plemper, the lead on the study.

“This is the first demonstration of an orally available drug to rapidly block SARS-CoV-2 transmission,” Plemper said. “MK-4482/EIDD-2801 could be game-changing.”

Plemper said the drug rapidly shuts down the replication of the virus in the body, derailing it to the point that the person is no longer contagious and can’t spread to other people.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/gsu-researchers-say-new-drug-completely-suppresses-covid-19-transmission/UASJIOG4SRB6TDAZM5DKVHHK2I/

[Worried2020]

6. Maybe we wrongly prioritized vaccination instead of cure . .

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We sure messed up sumhow . .

(sigh)

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[Demsrule86]

8. This can be compared to the common cold only more deadly. There may never be a cure.

Think of polio, I dont believe there was ever a cure.

[Codeine]

14. We've developed multiple vaccines in absolute record time.

We haven’t “messed up sumhow.”

[dflprincess]

5. In the long run prevention is better

(and cheaper).

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. There is no cure, there is vaccination (so you don't get it) recovery, hopefully (if you do get it)

or death (if you don't recover).

[Cicada]

9. In the eighties a doctor told me cures for viruses are rare

I think he even said that there had never been a cure for a virus.

I don’t know if that was true but maybe viruses are tricky bastards.

[kysrsoze]

10. Right now, there's no such thing as a virus cure. HOWEVER...

I hard a radio report - one of the vaccines greatly reduces severity for those... who already have it.

However, it is a virus and I’m not aware of a cure for any virus. There’s only vaccine and treatment. Anti-virals are in their infancy. Think of the common cold, flu and AIDS viruses - no cure for any of them.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. There's apparently a cure if you're a ferret.

As noted in this thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214658289

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. It's much, much "easier" to get a vaccine for a virus than a cure.

[Codeine]

13. That's not how viruses work.

An actual cure for a virus is very rare; that’s why we focus on vaccinations. We still haven’t cured the cold or the flu, so a COVID-19 cure is not a reasonable or realistic target.

[obamanut2012]

15. It is a virus

Viruses don't work that way.

[Peacetrain]

17. This!!!!!

[SidDithers]

16. Why would you think there will be a cure for this virus?...

There's no cure for most viruses.

Good article here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/why-are-viruses-hard-kill-virologists-explain-why-these-tiny-n1202046

Sid

[beaglelover]

18. There may never be a cure for COVID 19.

Afterall, we've never cured the common cold. I'll be fine if there is a vaccine that we need to take each year just like we do with the flu vaccine.

[Retrograde]

19. Smallpox vaccinations have been around since the late 1700s

if not earlier. AFAIK, though, there was never any cure for it until the virus itself was eradicated. As with other virus-caused diseases, the best we can do is treat the symptoms and hope for the best, while trying to keep it from spreading.

[Baclava]

20. You looking for a magic pill to make it all go away? Don the Con was selling his snake oil cures...