Posted on 01/21/2020 11:18:49 AM PST by 11th_VA
My daughter had it last week, recovered OK. Doctor told her it is one of 5 strains out there. Begs the question which one is the flu vaccine targeting? She had the flu shot in October.
I work in a WMD-related field. People ask me if I’m afraid of a nuclear explosion. I tell them no. that doesn’t concern me at all. What keeps me awake at night is knowing that somewhere out there is a virus waiting to mutate and take out millions of people. The only Stephen King novel I like is The Stand. The beginning of the book is about how it would go down. A living nightmare.
Vaccines take time to test and make, if they’re even possible. There was no reasonably effective vaccine for Ebola until 2018 and it wasn’t approved for general use until literally just last month. It also may not protect against all forms of Ebola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_vaccine#rVSV-ZEBOV
Consider that Ebola was first discovered in 1976 and you may see that there is some lead time here...
Fortunately, this one is a coronavirus, a general type that humanity has decent experience with and barring some nasty surprise or mutation, should be *relatively* routine to develop a vaccine for. The NIH announced that they are working on one, with clinical trials likely starting in a few months and general availability (should the trials go well) in about a year. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/health/coronavirus-nih-vaccine-development/index.html
One nasty thing about this is that it appears to have crossed the species barrier. Viruses that manage to do that tend to be on the nastier side.
One of the earliest symptoms of this disease is an insatiable desire to board an airplane Bound for the United States.
Highly contagious, concerning fatality rate... and it’s one mutation away from changing the latter from “concerning” to “very high”.
Randall Flag might be getting ready to take a walk.
Yu Sik?
No sik? Demonrats sik! Schift full of schift.
Flu vaccines protect against the three or four viruses (depending on the vaccine) that research suggests will be most common. For 2019-2020, trivalent (three-component) vaccines are recommended to contain:
It’s important to remember though, that things can change very quickly with flu and we could still see circulation of flu viruses with significant antigenic drift this season.
There is frequently updated information at FLUVIEW: Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report
The ACLU will kill any attempt to quarantine any disease outbreak as they did with the initial cases of HIV.
I survived ‘the population bomb’, the ozone hole, peak oil, acid raid, alar, all the polar bears dying, most of Florida being under water by 2020 AND the glaciers melting all over the world... with any luck I’ll survive this...
The Chinese H1Visa invader race back to the US after getting sick for our Free
Healthcare rather than die in his actual country .
Fixed it .
A lot of coughing and sneezing can happen on a 12 hour flight. The low humidity/dry cabin air of a plane helps the flu virus (and others) to spread which doesn’t bode well in how this thing is traveling.
Fortunately, she's a nurse so they caught it comparatively early, and she's doing better. But that was scary for a bit.
“The world is about to change drastically, again.”
Just posted on Drudge: antibiotics are not working.
Name him, ping him...
so he exposed everyone in the hospital..
And Kaci Hickox will still go out for pizza....
Speculation at best.
59 posts and not one image of the lager?
I’m impressed.
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