Thanks wastoute for your work.
You have been awesome on FR this weekend!
I am trying to be self-satisfied that I knew what you were going to say when you read Raoult, et al. In other words, I am getting a handle on your perspective and learning better what are the important questions to ask and how to get them answered.
I am disappointed by the result but not devastated. I wanted this to be something... (sigh).
You mentioned somewhere (can’t quote you but this is how I remember it,) how in order to bring these people back from the brink, the compound/drug must have dramatic and drastic properties in vitro or it is not going to do that in vivo.
Your clinical experience is sound and people should listen to you or at least those who are still in it daily, because I say without fear of contradiction, that a novel virus is NOT going to upend the entire science of virology or epidemiology!
Yes but you can also bet that a novel virus IS going to do SOMETHING unexpected. This is the first time in not just history but hundreds of thousands of years THIS virus has interacted with the human genome. Sure it will “follow the rules” of epidemiology etc. but I would bet my ass we discover something no one saw coming.
Glad to hear this is making sense to somebody. I have tried my hardest to avoid “jargon” and explain clearly.