Lets make this a pole on how you think this will end. Vote either vaccine, treatment's (no actual vaccine), nature will run it's course(virus will fade out)
Got to engage in this discussion with someone a few days ago who's lifes work is in this field. Stopped over to mom's house after work to download Zoom & set it up on her computer so she could virtually attend her church bible study. Ended up staying for din & watched some tv till the bible stuff ended. At the end there was a Q&A with a retired professor of infectious disease that's part of the bible study. He's well respected & his home office is riddled with accolades of his acheivements.
A few of the questions pertained to vaccines & how fast. One of the responses was there's been one sitting at a lab in Texas for almost five years now waiting on human trials but no funding! He went on to explain when the the predecessor disease SARS stopped abruptly in 2004 the gov & other agencies around the world basically phased out funding for it. Everyone in the field new another form of human corona virus would raise it's ugly head again they just didn't know how long he said. Mers was next in 2012, higher fatality rate than Sars Cov 1 & Sars Cov 2 x 2 in his words, but again with such a small death toll (less than 1000), the fact it didn't spread too far & way less infectious, not a lot of money was thrown at it either. He said basically every government never looked at a corona vaccine with the adage an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure until now. And now he said it's too late the horse already left the gate! Trillions of dollars lost in the economic shut down & 100+ companies/institutions rushing through trials (some skipping pre clinical) to get something to the market. He's optimistic with the worldwide collaboration that a vaccine will be made available, but like many of his peers not sure of the long term effectiveness or side effects with such short trials. Which he said can be as bad as the virus itself.
He went on to say this one is unique in many ways, from tricking healthy peoples immune systems to go bonkers & ending up almost lifeless on a respirator, to having little to no effect on children, some studies showing healthy adults between the age of 18-mid 50's are almost 90% asymtomatic, to the blood clotting issue's that are causing amptuee's, to ravaging otherwise healthy adults organs for no apparent reason etc. His closing words it's not your typical virus...treat it with respect
As much as i'm not a fan of lockdowns he said without a vaccine until next year at the earliest your either in or out with this it knows no boundries. When asked about the Nordic model in his words it's the biggest known clinical trial 1 in history! Not enough solid data yet he said to prove or disprove recovery guarantees immunity. If it does they will be out of the woods a lot sooner & won't have the worries of what's coming this fall & beyond he concluded.
I have no interest in partaking in any bible studies but having a Q&A with this guy is like having your own Dr. Fauci to answer your questions. And as much as he had to dumb down his response's he seemed to enjoy answering most of the questions
Got to engage in this discussion with someone a few days ago who's lifes work is in this field. Stopped over to mom's house after work to download Zoom & set it up on her computer so she could virtually attend her church bible study. Ended up staying for din & watched some tv till the bible stuff ended. At the end there was a Q&A with a retired professor of infectious disease that's part of the bible study. He's well respected & his home office is riddled with accolades of his acheivements.
A few of the questions pertained to vaccines & how fast. One of the responses was there's been one sitting at a lab in Texas for almost five years now waiting on human trials but no funding! He went on to explain when the the predecessor disease SARS stopped abruptly in 2004 the gov & other agencies around the world basically phased out funding for it. Everyone in the field new another form of human corona virus would raise it's ugly head again they just didn't know how long he said. Mers was next in 2012, higher fatality rate than Sars Cov 1 & Sars Cov 2 x 2 in his words, but again with such a small death toll (less than 1000), the fact it didn't spread too far & way less infectious, not a lot of money was thrown at it either. He said basically every government never looked at a corona vaccine with the adage an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure until now. And now he said it's too late the horse already left the gate! Trillions of dollars lost in the economic shut down & 100+ companies/institutions rushing through trials (some skipping pre clinical) to get something to the market. He's optimistic with the worldwide collaboration that a vaccine will be made available, but like many of his peers not sure of the long term effectiveness or side effects with such short trials. Which he said can be as bad as the virus itself.
He went on to say this one is unique in many ways, from tricking healthy peoples immune systems to go bonkers & ending up almost lifeless on a respirator, to having little to no effect on children, some studies showing healthy adults between the age of 18-mid 50's are almost 90% asymtomatic, to the blood clotting issue's that are causing amptuee's, to ravaging otherwise healthy adults organs for no apparent reason etc. His closing words it's not your typical virus...treat it with respect
As much as i'm not a fan of lockdowns he said without a vaccine until next year at the earliest your either in or out with this it knows no boundries. When asked about the Nordic model in his words it's the biggest known clinical trial 1 in history! Not enough solid data yet he said to prove or disprove recovery guarantees immunity. If it does they will be out of the woods a lot sooner & won't have the worries of what's coming this fall & beyond he concluded.
I have no interest in partaking in any bible studies but having a Q&A with this guy is like having your own Dr. Fauci to answer your questions. And as much as he had to dumb down his response's he seemed to enjoy answering most of the questions
