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"Travel And tourism are dead and will be dead until a vaccine is available." I don't understand the emphasis so many people place on a vaccine (which may never
by standardUser 7y ago
"Travel And tourism are dead and will be dead until a vaccine is available."
I don't understand the emphasis so many people place on a vaccine (which may never be created). SARS ended without a vaccine. MERS never crippled international travel. Both are coronaviruses and vaccines could not be developed for either. The Spanish Flu, which was vastly more devastating than even our worst projections for COVID-19, ended without a vaccine.
- remote_phone 7y agoVaccines for SARS were not developed because grants dried up because the virus died off so researchers stopped working on a vaccine. By all accounts, a vaccine for coronavirus is probable since it doesn’t mutate that quickly. The world was not nearly as interconnected as it is now. So the virus spreads faster and disrupts supply chains and economies much easier. Tourism is also a much bigger part of economies now.
- brenden2 7y agoPeople keep comparing this to the Spanish flu, but there was a big difference between this and the Spanish flu: most people who died from Spanish flu actually died from bacterial infections and other complications. Back then, antibiotics weren't really a thing yet.
- standardUser 7y agoI don't like the comparisons to the Spanish Fly either, but we need to keep in mind that a vaccine is one speculative way this could end. People increasingly refer to it as inevitability.