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It seems like this is missing the point of the post: > What's not happening is the advent of any drug, vaccine, antibody or anything else in time to keep this
by stordoff 7y ago
It seems like this is missing the point of the post:
> What's not happening is the advent of any drug, vaccine, antibody or anything else in time to keep this epidemic from becoming a very big problem. That's because it is already a very big problem
We don't need a treatment in a few months, or even a few weeks. We need a treatment _now_, and we don't have one. Even if remdesivir works, and we can show that _now_, we need to ramp up production and distribution.
Also, it seems like it could be covered in tomorrow's/Friday's post:
> either tomorrow or Friday I hope to do a post on all the things that are going on in the biopharma industry for a possible coronavirus treatment [... ] as anyone who knows anything about drug or vaccine or antibody development knows, we are many months away from the quickest possible proven intervention (more on this in the promised post)