Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Might have to take their show on the road, to find a suitable challenge population. Or they could use possibly use health-care workers who are at higher risk of exposure.
617 US deaths today, the lowest number since Mar 29. And those deaths reflect infections acquired at least a week ago. New cases diagnosed continue to decline, despite massively increased testing.
Whether a vaccine is ever developed or not, this epidemic will burn itself out, just as every other epidemic has in recorded history.
Whether we have even mitigated the damage with all of the lockdowns will forever remain a mystery, because it is an ‘n of one’ experiment, poorly susceptible to statistic analysis.
Clearly ‘mistakes were made’ in premature and inappropriate use of ventilators and seeding nursing homes full of the most vulnerable with hospital patients who were still contagious. Perhaps the lawyers who are about to get rich will lead the economic recovery...