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Given that markets didn't react to this news 11 hours ago, I think it's safe to say that this doesn't have significant prospects of being a real cure.

• war1025 7y ago
  The markets are reacting to the total shutdown of the service sector. That's going to cause a lot of pain whether or not this turns out to be the answer.
  • majos 7y ago
    If it turns out that there’s a cheap, widely available, already-studied treatment that achieves something even close to the 100% cure rate observed in the paper, the timeline for total shutdown looks much shorter, no?
    • war1025 7y ago
      > If it turns out That's the kicker. We are still waiting to see. One guy did it. Now others need to try it and see if it helps.
  • smallgovt 7y ago
    You don't think the markets would skyrocket if a real cure that is easily manufactured was discovered today? Sure, there's still a lot of pain to follow but the markets have priced in a lot of really bad scenarios where the virus kills large numbers and shutdowns last a long time.