Do you remember the Beverly hillbillies episode where the greedy banker was
working to get grannies cure for the common cold? I'm pretty sure at the
end of the day, it will be grannies cure
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 11:34 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
> What are the treatments that are now working? I try to be optimistic
> about antivirals and convalescent plasma, but right now they mainly have
> ventilators, which honestly aren’t very successful if 70-80% of the people
> die. They keep doing that because it’s the textbook therapy for
> respiratory distress, but it ain’t working. Even if it were working,
> ventilators are not a treatment, they don’t reverse the disease, they are
> just a measure to get you oxygen while your body hopefully fights the
> infection. And then you have the people experiencing kidney failure and
> needing dialysis, they’re not sure if the damage is permanent.
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> I hope you’re right that the medical community has learned how to treat
> it, but I haven’t heard the evidence for that.
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> Regarding a vaccine, one interesting piece of information I read was that
> even if they develop a successful and safe vaccine (many challenges
> including the sensitization problem), then they have to scale up vaccine
> production. Right now most vaccines are just for each new wave of
> schoolchildren, this would have to be for the entire population. And not
> in chicken eggs, it would have to be in big vats. And the interesting part
> is they could repurpose fermentation tanks used for things like brewing
> beer.
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2020 11:20 AM
> *To:* af@af.afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT still a bit of hope and optimism
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> Time will tell based on whether it actually starts declining in a
> meaningful way, or whether we're going to bump along for a bit. Remember,
> the goal was to flatten the curve; it wasn't necessarily going to reduce
> the number of infections. I get the impression that the medical community
> has learned a lot about how to actually treat it.
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> Let's see where we are a week from today (April 27). If we are over 1
> million infections, this may be going a while yet. If it is under 1
> million, I would be more encouraged.
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> bp
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> On 4/20/2020 8:20 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
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> Looks a bit Gaussian to me. I hope...
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