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To: eastexsteve

Yeah, the Trump Treatment is a bit weak.

Where is the Disease Control Center on finding a better treatment?


45 posted on 04/06/2020 1:30:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Where is the Disease Control Center on finding a better treatment?

I would well imagine there is an army of researchers working around the clock to find/develop an anti-viral drug to kill this virus, and a vaccine to program your immune system to recognize it. But, these are very intensive and time-consuming tasks. For instance, we have decoded the human genome and sequenced it. We know what part decides what color eyes you have, and what part determines how many fingers you grow on your right hand. A new virus like this is different. Your dealing with something that is infinitesimally small - maybe 50 to 100 atoms in width. Even then, we can extract the DNA but we have no idea what sequence does what without time consuming trial and error testing.

62 posted on 04/06/2020 2:03:41 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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