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

Sat Dec 5, 2020, 02:51 PM

Dec 2020

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.

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I've read all about pending vaccinations, but shit about CURES . . . [View all] Worried2020 Dec 2020 OP

no. we dont have cures. we just treat symptoms drray23 Dec 2020 #1

Hasn't Emory U. announced that they might be onto something? Karadeniz Dec 2020 #2

Preliminary testing so, don't know if this is anything but Marie Marie Dec 2020 #3

Another "maybe" Pantagruel Dec 2020 #4

Maybe we wrongly prioritized vaccination instead of cure . . Worried2020 Dec 2020 #6

We've developed multiple vaccines in absolute record time. Codeine Dec 2020 #14

In the long run prevention is better dflprincess Dec 2020 #5

In the eighties a doctor told me cures for viruses are rare Cicada Dec 2020 #9

Right now, there's no such thing as a virus cure. HOWEVER... kysrsoze Dec 2020 #10

There's apparently a cure if you're a ferret. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #11

It's much, much "easier" to get a vaccine for a virus than a cure. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #12

That's not how viruses work. Codeine Dec 2020 #13

It is a virus obamanut2012 Dec 2020 #15

This!!!!! Peacetrain Dec 2020 #17

Why would you think there will be a cure for this virus?... SidDithers Dec 2020 #16

There may never be a cure for COVID 19. beaglelover Dec 2020 #18

Smallpox vaccinations have been around since the late 1700s Retrograde Dec 2020 #19