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Although there's clearly evidence that having a low initial dose is an important factor in the severity of many infections, probably including Covid-19, I'm not
by ohazi 7y ago
Although there's clearly evidence that having a low initial dose is an important factor in the severity of many infections, probably including Covid-19, I'm not convinced that it's the dominant factor in instances where variolation was used successfully. In those cases, they deliberately used different infection pathways, such as drying out and grinding up scar tissue and applying it to a scrape on the skin with smallpox.
What would the options be for covid-19? The author seems to skip this train of thought, but I don't think you can reduce the death rate as much as he claims without at least considering it.
- acqq 7y ago> What would the options be for covid-19? The author seems to skip this train of thought, but I don't think you can reduce the death rate as much as he claims without at least considering it. Making the vaccine right. That's what science knows is the only "safe" way to get reliable results once it is applied on vast part of population. I don't think we can avoid making a real vaccine to be able to immunize population. Maybe the question is only which traditional corners could be cut, what can be parallelized, and what could be the consequences. It can be that some fresh approaches which haven't been tried before should be tried, given the spread and the impact of this pandemics.