I am still wondering if that ABC protection suit will be acceptable in an office setting. Gotta go search for it, it should be somewhere in the basement.
Apart from that I have a 3M 6002 which should be arriving arrived today, and enough alcohol to make sanitizer for our team and our friends. Fortunately there is still one chemical plant that is producing loads of alcohol, and yes, the cardboard needs to be soaked.
If you do not trust the alcohol, get a UV-C lamp. UV light at the right wave length does kill any virus quite efficiently.
I don't care about those epidemiological studies, I just do not want to contract it and I can survive quite some time in my home office.
Looking at the normal clinical study cycles and the production cycles for any potential agent then:
- even fast tracked the clinical studies will take no less then 4 - 5 months, probably more like 6
- ramping up production for any antibody production will take no less than 12 weeks and the production sites are limited
- producing vaccines will also take a considerable time. We are talking biologicals, not chemicals. Synthesis of proteins is not trivial.
my best guess is: the situation may improve EOY. Probably not before. The other viable option would be to quarantine as many as possible to eliminate the transmission vectors.
I know, Gene sequencing of the virus strains is ongoing, even NVIDIA has offered their GPU based stuff for 90 days without license fees to support this. However just knowing about the RNA sequence is not enough, you must be able to produce an antibody AND be ready to do mass production AND be ready to force this into the population AND be ready to exterminate/eliminate the source of the virus
And yes, we are working on medications to control some of the damage done to the lungs of the survivors.
I cannot talk about the collaborations with J&J, Novartis, Merck, et alii, but rest assured that there is a lot of collaboration.
I have a notion that they will also offer mass production of any NBE that may come out of the research/development pipeline, but even if I knew I would not be authorized to talk about that.