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There are a lot of useful interventions that we're figuring out that will help even before we get a vaccine. Lots of antivirals are being studied and those tha
by Symmetry 7y ago
There are a lot of useful interventions that we're figuring out that will help even before we get a vaccine. Lots of antivirals are being studied and those that work will probably be best given in the first few days after symptoms show up, which requires more testing. Figuring out when to give steroids or IL-6 inhibitors after the first week when the virus starts to fade but the danger of cytokine storms gets worse. Figuring out when to flip people onto their stomachs (proning) and how low blood oxygen levels can get before intubation is actually necessary.
If we can keep this thing suppressed for another month summer might provide us with a bit of breathing room to figure out what works and stockpile supplies. But even if not I'd rather get this thing with the medical state of the art a month from now.