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DrG:

--- Quote from: Nusa on June 14, 2020, 12:54:18 am ---
--- Quote from: DrG on June 13, 2020, 07:01:43 pm ---As I stated earlier, I do think that we will have a monoclonal antibody treatment by the fall (by the end of the fall). It will be effective and it will be something of a game changer particularly with respect to school openings for the new year. Within a few months of the first, there will be several more, but with some big issues surrounding costs. This, I predict, will be a big election issue as part of healthcare that people can relate to easily. Who gets them and who pays and how much?

An effective vaccine is much further down the road in my view (I hope I am wrong).

It will also be morbidly interesting to see if we observe any rollbacks in opening up. I would think that this is going to, again, fall along political lines.

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End of Fall (September 22 to December 21st in the USA) is too late for it to be much of a election issue. Election ends November 3rd, but many votes will get cast by mail or early voting days to weeks before that, so even the start of Fall may be too late for election purposes.

As for who should get them first if it works: First responders and healthcare workers. And if schools are opening, the teachers, unless you don't mind not having enough teachers showing up to operate schools.

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I think that things can happen well before mail voting starts - as long as positive effects are being found, which could be as early as August.

It is a healthcare issue and what if the doses are 1K each and you need 2-3 (I am COMPLETELY guessing)?  Do only people with the $$$ get it or only people with the right healthcare, or some healthcare can get it for a $20 co-pay? I don't even want to think about prioritizing a list.

But yes, I am just guessing about these things and when they might show up and I am trying to be optimistic.

DrG:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 14, 2020, 03:26:52 am ---
--- Quote from: cdev on June 14, 2020, 01:38:23 am ---Why, why why are we seeing that huge cluster of red in Arizona?

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Lots of older people who are vulnerable, lots of conservatives who think Covid is a liberal conspiracy, lots of dense retirement communities which have typically been especially hard hit in other areas. That's my speculation anyway.

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...and things like this that get reported loudly....
Arizona Governor Won't Require Mask Use as Coronavirus Cases Spike, Says People Need to 'Learn to Live' With Virus https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-governor-wont-require-mask-use-coronavirus-cases-spike-says-people-need-learn-live-1510713

Zero999:

--- Quote from: DrG on June 14, 2020, 03:32:39 am ---
--- Quote from: james_s on June 14, 2020, 03:26:52 am ---
--- Quote from: cdev on June 14, 2020, 01:38:23 am ---Why, why why are we seeing that huge cluster of red in Arizona?

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Lots of older people who are vulnerable, lots of conservatives who think Covid is a liberal conspiracy, lots of dense retirement communities which have typically been especially hard hit in other areas. That's my speculation anyway.

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...and things like this that get reported loudly....
Arizona Governor Won't Require Mask Use as Coronavirus Cases Spike, Says People Need to 'Learn to Live' With Virus https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-governor-wont-require-mask-use-coronavirus-cases-spike-says-people-need-learn-live-1510713

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It seems like Arizona's mistake was to simply remove the stay at home order. More successful governments have gradually eased restrictions on social distancing, replacing them with other more targetted measures such as test and trace.

Mask wearing should be part of living with the virus, limiting its spread and protecting the vulnerable.

Anyway, I heard some good news the other day. My colleague's daughter who's nearly 21, had no underlying health conditions, yet was hospitalised with severe pneumonia, due to secondary bacterial infection, as a result of a weakened immune system from COVID-19, is returning home this weekend. It was touch and go whether she'd see her 21st birthday at one stage, but fortunately she pulled through. Hopefully she'll make a full recovery, but it'll take time. She was worried about not being able to finish hew dissertation, but the university know about her illness and have given her an extension.

The young shouldn't be complacent. The case fatality rate is probably 0.1% in the 20 year old, female demographic, but that's with access to good healthcare and that percentage would still lead to a large number of excess deaths, if COVID-19 were left to run riot.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: cdev on June 14, 2020, 01:38:23 am ---Why, why why are we seeing that huge cluster of red in Arizona?


--- Quote from: DrG on June 13, 2020, 07:01:43 pm ---In the US, we are seeing some sharp rises in daily new cases in some places – sometimes the new case counts are the highest ever observed and with positivity rates well above 10%. News media selectively makes the attributions quickly or, on the other “side”, seemingly ignores it altogether.

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(from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)


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It isn't often we get to see in near real time, the effects of policy decisions...

coppice:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 14, 2020, 03:26:52 am ---
--- Quote from: cdev on June 14, 2020, 01:38:23 am ---Why, why why are we seeing that huge cluster of red in Arizona?

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Lots of older people who are vulnerable, lots of conservatives who think Covid is a liberal conspiracy, lots of dense retirement communities which have typically been especially hard hit in other areas. That's my speculation anyway.

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Is it because the snow birds are migrating?

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