• And if the test isn't accurate, or the right population isn't tested. Or the right numbers. Then who knows if the.
    I can't be bothered to finish that sentence or train of thought.

    Until there's a vaccine we're on lockdown with spikes of infection and death.

  • Until there's a vaccine

    I see a lot of people talking about when, not if. Cant help but feel that there is a misplaced confidence that one can be found.

  • Cant help but feel that there is a misplaced confidence that one can be found.

    Yeah that's because you are glass half fulling.

    Mrs. Howard works in medical research and pretty much everything non-Covid has dried up, or has taken on a Covid angle. Nobody is interested in anything else right now. And the enormity of the prize for cracking this should provide ample motivation for anyone who can work on this to work on this. Precedent - Influenza - suggests that large scale highly effective Vaccines are possible. Until there is evidence to suggest a Vaccine cannot be developed, I'm happy to believe we are on the way.

  • Interesting train of thought. A counter would be that we will certainly get better at cluster detection and snubbing out new spread. That might allow us to go on without an eventual vaccine.

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