I’ll point out a couple of observations (based on Germany and Europe):
1. Of the five dead Germans, four of them were having health issues before Coronavirus ever came along (bad heart, frail, diabetes, etc).
2. From the original 14 from this one town in Bavaria, all them noted that they had roughly seven days of harsh-regular flu, and by the 10th day...were back to normal. All were under the age of 60.
3. German doctors refuse to put anyone into a hospital quarantine situation unless you are in serious jeopardy (secondary conditions). All of the infected crowd are mostly given home-quarantine for two weeks, then re-tested. This system has proven to work. Generally...85-percent of infected folks are on the home-quarantine route.
4. The high numbers in Italy? There is some belief that the higher numbers of older Italians (more than most other European countries)...set up a collusion course where the hospital system in Italy was the dumping ground for them, and they simply didn’t have the nurses, beds or resources to cover the significant number showing up. Just saying the whole country has X-number of beds doesn’t matter...if you live in one region with 3,000 people coming up each day on the new infection list. That region will have only a percentage of the beds possible, and the number of nurses just can’t cover that many sick people.
5. Finally, the blunt truth is that there is no wonder drugs, no therapy, or vaccine on the horizon. Your only option is to use the sports philosophy of ‘delay-delay-delay’ by practicing good hygiene, limiting public contact, and if in the 85-percent group....do plain regular quarantine at home.
5. Finally, the blunt truth is that there is no wonder drugs, no therapy, or vaccine on the horizon. Your only option is to use the sports philosophy of ‘delay-delay-delay’ by practicing good hygiene, limiting public contact, and if in the 85-percent group....do plain regular quarantine at home.
I agreed for 90% or more regular quarantine at home is the best option. But, for those seriously affected there is some hope.
New treatment methods are being used now. The HIV treatment ones are already approved (so, ready now if they work, they currently have great results). Transfusions using previous infected patient’s blood shown a lot of progress (and is already approved procedure). A gene sequencing one has been tested and approved for other closely related viruses.
There are over 90 pharmaceutical companies working on a cure and vaccine, several are showing great progress (not factored into the deathrate), Favilavir, Remdesivir, Actemra, REGN3048-3051, blood transfusions from survivors, etc.