Testing is the key. That’s why Germany are doing so much better than anyone else through all of this. They’ve had mass testing from the start. The lack of funding to the NHS in recent years has been shameful and we’re now getting the sting in the tail from that.
Getting hold of a vaccine will take a long while yet. So many different countries are working around the clock to try and make it happen. Anyone who is willing to be a human guinea pig to test stuff are very brave. Until then we might have to rely on the likes of a head lice tablet..... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11401060/head-lice-drug-promising-results-treating-coronavirus/
Aussie scientists have discovered that the virus can be detected in faeces several days before patients show any symptoms....that test could be a real breakthrough if the practicalities of administering it can be worked out.
Isn't Covid-19 a flu type virus? If it is you'd think it would eventually become part of a future flu vaccine.
More news on using plasma being done in the UK after working quite well abroad. Anything is worth a try.
If that happens over a year before anyone else expects one to be ready it would go down as a miracle and then governments all around the world would have to work together to get it out to the public as quickly as possible.
No as I understand, it has more in common with the common cold as a virus. The symptoms are flu like.
That's absolutely bonkers though. Their great plan is to test samples as they come through the sewage system down at the sewage works. What useless information that is "ok boss ive got good news and bad news. The good news is I can tell you that somebody has coronavirus and somebody hasn't. The bad news is I can only narrow it down to one of 20,000 homes." If the option is to test random poo samples to find the general numbers of people who do and don't have it or to test actual living people and say YOU do or don't have it then I know which is the better option. And it's the option that South Korea has been using for months.
The common cold is caused by about 2-300 different viruses. The majority are rhinovirus, but a sizable minority are varieties of coronavirus. The term coronavirus describes the shape of the virus "particle", so it is shaped vaguely similar to the shape of those, but to say it is just a variant of common cold is to say that a bear is the same as a chimpanzee.
From the article I read that is their plan. Its to test samples as they come through the sewage system. At the sewage works it's test a number of samples that 'float' down and use it to keep track of roughly how many people 'up stream' have got it.
The article I read was saying it might be possible to combine it with the standard bowel cancer testing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cine-hope-ministers-unveil-new-taskforce.html You can't blame it being played down so people don't get their hopes up. However they wouldn't be making a million doses at the time/cost to it if they didn't think their trials would work and they would have to throw it all away.
That's not what the article I read said though. The article I was reading was quite specific that they intended to test samples as they came through the sewage system to the sewage works. It read that the aim was to be able to simply monitor the numbers of cases in all areas so that they could react and impose lockdowns on any area who's pipelines were giving a rate of infection deemed too high.
There never have been a guarantee of a working vaccine. Neither does recovery guarantee conferred immunity. The results of either won't be known definitively for many months or even years.
