[EternalHope]

I'm not a doctor, but from what I've read a man made virus could go either way (harder, or easier, to cure).

However, the medical response to sequencing the genome seems to be pretty clear: The docs were disappointed.

Although the virus clearly seems to be from the coronavirus family, it did not show a clear link to any of the three coronavirus groups. Hence, they did not get a good read on where it originally came from. Nor did they get a good read on what animals might be useful for testing, nor did they get hints on what treatments and/or vaccine approaches might be most likely to work.

[CathyRyan]

Also today, the WHO hosted a telephone conference of doctors to discuss apparent ``superspreaders,'' SARS patients who have infected many other people. WHO experts said the discussion confirmed what they had long suspected -- that all the superspreaders were people infected very early in the SARS outbreak before doctors know what protective measures to take.

Could this be right? How did the 11 medical staff come down with it? They would have had to be exposed after they started to realize what they were up against. I am starting to think everyone is start to spin control. jmho