Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Shockholm Syndrome

 

Yes and no. One of the Remdesivir trials is at UAB, and I've been watching it. The drug is somewhat like Tamiflu in that it needs to be administered early in the infection to be most effective, but it is an intravenous drug. You have to be in the hospital to get it (by definition, that's not early on) and the statistical improvement in outcomes is a single digit percentage. I still have hope for it, but it does not appear to be a game changer.

 

No, but it says a game changer is out there. If the death rate dropped to that of the common flu, we can go back to normal.

 

We don’t do a thing, it’s very easy to think another 250,000 Americans are dead right now. That’s probably a low estimate.

 

The only good thing about Ga. opening back up (along with Fla., Tx., and Tenn.) is that they'll perform the experiment for the rest of us. If they get it in the neck, that will be a useful example to the rest of the states. The problem is that Fla, Tenn and Ga border Alabama, and the interstates are not blocked. Sigh.

 

We may be developing a one-two combination to daze the virus thanks to the Germans

Coronavirus vaccine being tested in Germany could 'supply millions' by end of year - CNN

 

The problem with that is that curbside has costs that cut into profits as it is. Discounts make that problem worse.

 

Well, the rising death rates part of this equation will solve itself.

 

Good news out of England as well. Still a long way to an approved and effective vaccine, but there's hope. I'm pretty skeptical about drugs/vaccines early on in the process. Too many "promising" drugs early on never make it to human trials, let alone release.

 

The Justice Department is apparently working with conservative Christian groups to fight COVID-19 policies

 

The hope I have with the Germans is they are moving on to human trials, mainly getting dosing calibrated. But you are 100 percent right. This vaccine offers no statistical protection or harms the person too much then this is gone. Still I chose to hope.