[mrsmith]

IDK, but I’m feeling good about the treatments evolving for the virus.
How about you?

[Black Agnes]

I’ve felt that way since the beginning actually.

My only reservations were if we could get/manufacture enough given the supply chain disruptions from China and the ongoing friction re: trade war.

I’m still concerned about that actually. And not just with CV treatments. Unless we get kicking on a source of antibiotics, strep throat will kill kids again.

[amorphous]

I feel that if the treatments we have now were miracle cures, or even close, 1,900 people wouldn't have died today. The number I projected several days ago for COB on 10 April, 17,000+ dead, would have been much, much less.

We're hearing all of these stories of people recovering, but the numbers just don't support what we're hearing and I can't begin to tell ya how sad that makes me feel.

I think your thoughts about us hitting a barrier - which is what both Italy and Korea have done - and I know Korea is our best guide in beating this - anyway, I thing you're right. I think we'll hit a barrier soon, maybe in a week or two at the most.

On the positive side, there are a lot more treatments being proposed and evaluated. We need a drug that actually turns CV into nothing more fearful than the flu. Vaccines are too far away to be of much value with this disease due to it's rate of spread and CFR. We may reach herd immunity before a vaccine is available at the current rate of infection - just sayin'...