In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
I suspect you are tongue in cheek here. It matters not one whit the number of cases. Testing DOES NOT and WILL NOT change the number of people that have contracted the virus. That is the only number that matters. Testing simply records them. If anything recording them if we recorded them accurately and within a National testing strategy and plan and had done that from the start would actually be a benefit. As it is, without a National Strategy and Plan it is not much more than a morbid recording of death, destruction and catastrophe.
I never thought I would see the day when the country could be led off a cliff committing national suicide executing the economy along the way. But that is precisely what we are doing.
There are multiple vaccines that have now had a purchase contract from the US government issued. I am glad they are not putting all their money in one basket; thats smart. These vaccines are being produced "at risk" meaning that the are being mass produced before the phase 3 studies have been completed. I think that they should not only be mass produced asap but DISTRIBUTED to where they can be used immediately after approval as well, assuming they work.
The Trump administration has reached a deal with Moderna Inc. to manufacture and deliver 100 million doses of the company's Covid-19 vaccine once it is approved, according to a news release from the US Health and Human Services Department.
The government has also reached a deal with Pfizer in July to produce 100 million doses of its vaccine. In August it reached a similar deal for 100 million doses with Janssen, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine arm, for its vaccine candidate. It has other deals with GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Pasteur, Novavax and AstraZeneca.
Last edited by FredLynn; 08-11-2020 at 07:28 PM.
It's nice that Russia has agreed to be the world's guinea pig.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
I know it's just a single day, but today's 1,504 deaths is the most since May 29th and third highest since May 16th.
"It is what it is."
"It's under control."
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Here is an innovative approach to preventing Covid 19. They say it could be available within months as an over the counter nasal spray and inhalation product and that it might require several applications per day. Keep your fingers crossed:
‘AeroNabs’ Promise Powerful, Inhalable Protection Against COVID-19
By Jason Alvarez
As the world awaits vaccines to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, UC San Francisco scientists have devised a novel approach to halting the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.
Led by UCSF graduate student Michael Schoof, a team of researchers engineered a completely synthetic, production-ready molecule that straitjackets the crucial SARS-CoV-2 machinery that allows the virus to infect our cells. As reported in a new paper, now available on the preprint server bioRxiv, experiments using live virus show that the molecule is among the most potent SARS-CoV-2 antivirals yet discovered.
In an aerosol formulation they tested, dubbed “AeroNabs” by the researchers, these molecules could be self-administered with a nasal spray or inhaler. Used once a day, AeroNabs could provide powerful, reliable protection against SARS-CoV-2 until a vaccine becomes available. The research team is in active discussions with commercial partners to ramp up manufacturing and clinical testing of AeroNabs. If these tests are successful, the scientists aim to make AeroNabs widely available as an inexpensive, over-the-counter medication to prevent and treat COVID-19.
“Far more effective than wearable forms of personal protective equipment, we think of AeroNabs as a molecular form of PPE that could serve as an important stopgap until vaccines provide a more permanent solution to COVID-19,” said AeroNabs co-inventor Peter Walter, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. For those who cannot access or don’t respond to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, Walter added, AeroNabs could be a more permanent line of defense against COVID-19.
“We assembled an incredible group of talented biochemists, cell biologists, virologists and structural biologists to get the project from start to finish in only a few months,” said Schoof, a member of the Walter lab and an AeroNabs co-inventor.
Admittedly this is still in the "unproven" category, but it sounds pretty hopeful to me.
Last edited by FredLynn; 08-12-2020 at 09:55 AM.