It doesn’t even need to be a golden bullet. The US is looking at maybe 1% mortality rate, which is probably inflated because we STILL don’t have that much testing available. You knock that down a few pegs and we’re no longer “orders of magnitude” worse than the common flu anymore; we’re talking about something comparable to a bad flu season. You’re also getting more people out of hospital beds quicker, which is what everyone is panicking about.
The medication, if it acted the way the earlier tests proves it did, will gain us time and frees resources. The End-Game is the vaccine.
This being said, I love what I am seeing: So many people are involved into fixing this very problem and a mobilization I don't believe we have saw since world war two. We will get trough this.
Yep, when the US proves it is the best at fighting a pandemic, and our future response is a kill switch that brings all us citizens home in 72 hours and locks down the border as the last one comes in, the economy of the safest country in the world will be back on top.
Yep, the whole issue is the potential of hospitals being overwhelmed. If a treatment helps people recover quicker, that reduces the amount of time those beds are unavailable for new patients. This could theoretically help solve that issue in a major way.
We’re already down from the high 3.4% estimates to 1.3%, and testing has only just begun to ramp up. If it turns out that we have millions of infected then we will be in the flu range, or even less.
It doesn’t even need to be a golden bullet. The US is looking at maybe 1% mortality rate, which is probably inflated because we STILL don’t have that much testing available. You knock that down a few pegs and we’re no longer “orders of magnitude” worse than the common flu anymore; we’re talking about something comparable to a bad flu season. You’re also getting more people out of hospital beds quicker, which is what everyone is panicking about.
That's it.
The medication, if it acted the way the earlier tests proves it did, will gain us time and frees resources. The End-Game is the vaccine.
This being said, I love what I am seeing: So many people are involved into fixing this very problem and a mobilization I don't believe we have saw since world war two. We will get trough this.
Yep, when the US proves it is the best at fighting a pandemic, and our future response is a kill switch that brings all us citizens home in 72 hours and locks down the border as the last one comes in, the economy of the safest country in the world will be back on top.
2016: We will build a wall and make Mexico pay for it!
2020: We will crush this pandemic and make China pay for it!
As long as next time millions of Americans don't have their lives upended for something like this
Yep, the whole issue is the potential of hospitals being overwhelmed. If a treatment helps people recover quicker, that reduces the amount of time those beds are unavailable for new patients. This could theoretically help solve that issue in a major way.
It’s 1.32% right now.
We’re already down from the high 3.4% estimates to 1.3%, and testing has only just begun to ramp up. If it turns out that we have millions of infected then we will be in the flu range, or even less.