[conspire] (forw) Re: Imperial College London COVID-19 COVID-19 Response Team report

[Ross Bernheim]

Seems the Europeans have a possible therapy that works.

https://medium.com/@ngough_bioserendipity/a-combination-therapy-that-eliminates-the-covid-19-virus-4e4c6e3864af

Not a vaccine, but it could save a lot of lives if proves out in further testing.

Ross

> On Mar 22, 2020, at 7:49 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 
> Quoting Texx:
> 
>> Problem with vaccine is that it will take a year to get up and running
>> despite their work in Seattle and this thiong will burn out by then.
> 
> About 14 months to prove it safe and effective (_if_ it is), and then
> several more months to ramp up production of a proven vaccine.  Thus the
> conventional round figure of 18 months.
> 
>> Sure we have gone with option #3 in CA, but now we need to quarantine
>> anyone from outside of CA entering, lest they start things all over again.
> 
> 1.  California cannot lawfully do that.
> 
> 2.  If you think that's necessary, then you have not yet understood
> the strategy.  No amount of suppression tactics (as the maximal strategy 
> is termed in the Imperial College London report) can be expected to 
> eradicate the virus from the population.  That is not the aim.
> 
> I can only suggest reading the report again, especially the section
> about 'suppression' strategy timing, circa pages 11-13.
> 
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