re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

Supposedly the vaccine will take in excess of a year or more (maybe much more), so part of this whole mitigation is trying to keep the transmission rate slow enough that the medical system can get by in the mean time.

Although, we’re probably about 23 infected politicians away from this being accelerated the likes of which we’ve never seen....

I think that there will be a vaccine too. The are people working on a number of completely different approaches to a vaccine. But yeah, nothing will actually be available for at least a year.

I read not long ago that they were close to a SARS vaccine, but never finished it because SARS went away. Would be interesting to know how much closer we might be had they finished that development instead of (seemingly) assuming there was no value in the research for a dwindling threat.

Also heard a couple of days ago that we will soon have a “universal flu vaccine” that doesn’t rely on guessing the two most likely strains of seasonal flu. That sounds promising.

They are just getting to the time consuming part. First they have to prove safety. You need time for any negative side effects to show. Think about how some drug companies have been sued for symptoms or side effects that don’t occur until years down the road. Then they have to prove that the vaccine is effective.

For the swine flu you already had proven safety and efficacy of other flu vaccines. So they just needed to rearrange the H’s and N’s to match the new virus.

Im no one to look up to. Don’t be impressed by me. Be impressed by wawawewaawe who is on the front lines and has a family to worry about exposing. Yet he’s here every day in this thread posting as much as me and since this started. Maybe thousands of posts. How he finds the time I’ll never know. He’s the true hero.

Another case in Houston... And like all the others, returned from an overseas trip to you guessed it, Italy.


Seriously, what in the ever living frick. When will the US begin restricting and screening people coming in from Italy?

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Another case in Houston... And like all the others, returned from an overseas trip to you guessed it, Italy.


Seriously, what in the ever living frick. When will the US begin restricting and screening people coming in from Italy?

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Too busy canceling parent teacher conferences in random parishes and postponing random basketball games in Wisconsin

You know, important things that will really make a difference

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Another case in Houston... And like all the others, returned from an overseas trip to you guessed it, Italy

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All of the other cases in Houston are linked to a trip to Egypt.

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There is ZERO chance a doctor could do that while at work. My wife barely has time to shoot out a text at work

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Oh boy...

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You have seriously exposed yourself as the absolute biggest douchebag on the OT through this thread. You have obsessively posted in this thread for several straight days without any break. Like get a fricking life baw.