When it comes to Covid-19, we've shown ourselves to be a pretty reckless bunch. Trump wants to persuade voters that he'll have it wrapped up shortly after the election. Plenty will believe him even though he's a proven liar.
So, what's up?
I think Wolf Blitzer's interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci clears the air.
So there you have it. There's hope that a vaccine will come along somewhere around the New Year. It probably won't be completely effective. 75 per cent would be great. It's going to take months to produce hundreds of millions of doses and many more months to get the population, or enough of the population, vaccinated. Because the chances are really slim that we'll see a "magic bullet" vaccine, we will have to do the now familiar routines - handwashing, masks, social distancing, quarantines - for at least another year.
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.. What a phenomenal contrast to the political bombast
The calm voice of reality..
There still isn't an effective testing process - and testing is idiotically low
How can you identify the efficacy of a vaccine when you don't know how many people are already infected?
No succesful vaccine has been developed for anything in under two years . . .
I have more details on a nanoparticle response. Endotoxins are harder targets as they fool our immune systems into acting as though healthy human cells are the target. Covid-19 appears to be treated by our immune system like an endotoxin. Starting with exotoxins is easier. A nanoparticle volume of a twoonie is required to nullify a mature respiratory pandemic disease progression. It will be necessary for the particle to act as a catalyst or enzyme and be statistically intact for (+)1000x toxin degradation. Some particle process will have to crush or acidify the toxin protein, not merely catch it.
For medical imaging particles, an iron oxide skeleton can perhaps be degraded by an external heat or magnetic source. I would think this is more likely to be a beneficial field than is general vaccine research, for future pandemic reference.
At least there is one man in Washington with integrity. There are probably many more who are simply doing their jobs. But one particular man can poison the well.
First thing - to Anon and Phillip Huggan, you're asking questions and making claims that are entirely beyond the scope of this blog post. If you've discovered something relevant, Phil, you should convey your information to someone who might be able to use it. This just isn't the place for it.
I agree, Sal. No drama. Straightforward, logical explanations. What I took from it is that we are just starting the second quarter of this pandemic. CTV had a Toronto epidemiologist on yesterday who said the recent upsurge is increasingly looking like the start of the second wave. His prescription? Masks, handwashing, social distancing and we need to close places where people cannot or will not wear masks, i.e. bars and restaurants. This fellow added what I was recently told by my GP - if we do these now familiar things it will also be effective against the seasonal flu, winter colds and other viruses.
So true, Owen, and that is precisely why Fauci has been sidelined and no longer appears at press briefings. It's just part of the effort to mislead the public.
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