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Does the flu kill people every year because we just have not tried staying in our homes for months every year sitting atop a mountain of hoarded toilet paper ?
How is this virus supposed to zapped out of existence never to keep going by this method ?
How is it not with us from now on ?
I have never heard this addressed .
Because it's so contagious, we'll likely see herd immunity before a vaccine.
Flu doesn't cause a panic for a few reasons:
1. We understand its prevalence. We may be missing 10x, 100x of the CV cases. Which, if understood, would lead us to understand it's more widespread and mild than once thought.
2. We have tons of established tests/processes to deal with it.
3. Our hospitals are designed to withstand one epidemic at a time (seasonal flu).
4. It's less contagious, and has a shorter duration.
It'll take awhile but there are companies working on possible vaccines for Covid-19. One, (Pentagon-funded) Medicago out of Canada, believes it has a vaccine for this virus. Problem is it probably wont be able to be approved until November, 2021 due to testing requirements. Researchers in different countries are also working on a vaccine or cure.
Sounds like we may just be going through the motions in hopes of avoiding the subject .
Why don't any of these know it all Harvard educated journalists obsessed with playing a never ending game of " Gottcha " at press conferences just for once do their job & ask these type questions ?
The virus will mutate and we will mutate (create antibodies) and coexist like we do with the flu. We just need antibodies right now to fight it off. That is the difference. We have no antibodies.
Because it's so contagious, we'll likely see herd immunity before a vaccine.
Flu doesn't cause a panic for a few reasons:
1. We understand its prevalence. We may be missing 10x, 100x of the CV cases. Which, if understood, would lead us to understand it's more widespread and mild than once thought.
2. We have tons of established tests/processes to deal with it.
3. Our hospitals are designed to withstand one epidemic at a time (seasonal flu).
4. It's less contagious, and has a shorter duration.
I don't who you mean by " WE " ? But what I understand about the flu is that the CDC estimates it has
killed in the neighborhood of 30,000 people in U.S. just from Oct. , 2019 to Feb. 2020.
Now that's prevalence! https://www.health.com/condition/col...flu-every-year
It'll take awhile but there are companies working on possible vaccines for Covid-19. One, (Pentagon-funded) Medicago out of Canada, believes it has a vaccine for this virus. Problem is it probably wont be able to be approved until November, 2021 due to testing requirements. Researchers in different countries are also working on a vaccine or cure.
With this rate of success a vaccine does not sound very comforting
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