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Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 2984166)

That is just an anti viral med they used to treat Ebola. It isn’t anything new and it may not even work. They just “think” it may help. It is also used to treat it once you get it. No vaccine has been produced yet. Even if they came up with a vaccine in the next month (unlikely) you and I won’t be able to get a shot at a local health department until next year.

Better hope you are healthy, get it earlier so there is room in a hospital, and get ready for a real ****ty two weeks if you catch it. My biggest concern is getting it at work, it knowing I have it, and infecting my family before I have symptoms.

"The vaccine was created just 42 days after the genetic sequence of the COVID_19 virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was released by Chinese researchers in mid-January."

This is a direct quote from the article. Did you even read it? It's a brand new vaccine. The article also mentions the drug Remdisivir, which is what you're talking about. The vaccine the article focuses on is entirely new.

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Originally Posted by NotoriousCPZ (Post 2984173)

Now to just test the vaccine and see if it works...then create a few billion doses of it.

The new vaccine uses mRNA to possibly give the body an immunity to the specially coded pathogen (in this case the Covid-19 virus). It is a new technique and its efficacy is not proven.

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Originally Posted by Winston (Post 2983895)

Fun fact: the term “force majeure” is not found anywhere in the UPA.

Forget it, he's rolling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi7q5zZfSU8

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Originally Posted by RAHkid94 (Post 2983946)

\\IAm I going to lock myself in a basement and only leave in a biohazard suit? No. I’m in international airports full of travelers from around the world 4 days a week. If this spreads, I’m going to get it. But this is literally several orders of magnitude worse than the flu. While my chances of survival as a healthy, young-ish person are pretty good, I am very worried about accidentally infecting my elderly parents and very worried about the effects this will have on the economy. The sky is not falling but maybe it’s time to tighten the belt a little and take some basic health precautions.

I'm starting a company that will address your concerns for your elderly parents. I'll be selling two products.

The Bubble Boy container, which will be sold as EPBOT (Experimental Prototype Bubble of Tomorrow). It will be a round clear container with an 8 foot diameter allowing a single person to be isolated for all germs and all society.
The 'Howard Hughes Hotel' container. It will be approximately 4000 cubic feet allowing multiple people to be isolated from all germs and society. The first 500 buyers will get free jars to store their urine.

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Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 2984166)

My biggest concern is getting it at work, not knowing I have it, and infecting my family before I have symptoms.

A 20yr old in China passed it to 5 of her family and never got sick herself.

https://www.sciencealert.com/researc...owing-symptoms

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Originally Posted by JoePatroni (Post 2984430)

Completely wrong.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...740174339?s=21

https://www.usnews.com/news/national...oronavirus-aid

Here is what he said. Sounds like “possible” not “definitely” to me. Hopefully there is a reprieve in the warm weather months to buy time for a vaccine.

https://www.kron4.com/health/coronav...ther-warms-up/

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...navirus-cases/

The active number of cases is actually decreasing if you look at the trends on these charts and the death rate is deceasing as well. The growth rate is slightly above 1. If it trends below 1 soon it will most likely die out. So definitely not as dire as you hear the media make it out to be. Never let a good crisis and chance for sensationalism pass you by though. In the meantime, whole industries, such as travel, are devastated.