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I've a feeling at the end of the day the only solution will be to scale up the number of medical facilities/personnel/equipment so we can cope with changing and
by accurrent 5y ago
I've a feeling at the end of the day the only solution will be to scale up the number of medical facilities/personnel/equipment so we can cope with changing and mutating virus. With sufficient care, access to oxygen etc, we may still be able to handle the onslaught of new variants. Vaccines, while very important, will not be a magic bullet unless we can get them to enough people fast enough. This still remains a problem.
- usrusr 5y agoMedical facilities already take up a considerable fraction of total productivity. Vaccine production on the other hand is a tiny footnote in the grand scheme of things. Vaccine output could be increased tenfold or more for less effort then it would take to increase medical facilities by only a few percentage points. It's a comparison like getting a second TV for seeing more frames per second vs trying to do the same by commissioning more oil paintings (from a really bad painter)
- accurrent 5y agoThis is true for rich nations. In many poorer nations simple improvements to the healthcare system are far more realistic than creation of a new vaccine plant. mRNA vaccines are currently only produced by very few manufacturers, getting these vaccines to poorer nations is just not happening. In the mean time the vaccine will continue to mutate in these nations. The fact is many poorer nations lack basic equipment like oxygen generation units. This basically spells death for people who would otherwise recover. To put an example. Singapore has had 62K infections but only 32 deaths. Why? Its a small very rich nation. While there were large numbers warded in icu and requiring oxygen supplies, we had the equipment. By contrast anywhere else on earth we see far poorer survival rates.