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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt the beginning of last week there were around 10 cases of COVID-19 in US
Now there are over 100.
By this time next week there will be more than 1000 in the US. And before the end of the month 10s if thousands.
And that presumes we can contain it as well as China did. Im not hopeful that will happen.
This is a matter of weathering the disease. CDC says a vaccine wont be available for about a year. So therapeutics is the only treatment and keeping those who are impacted the most severely alive.
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)I hope some of the information about old malaria drugs being effective treatment turn out to be correct. That would be a bit of good news.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)(And I mean, tests that yield correct results, not the flawed tests in circulation.)
It's very worrisome indeed. I don't think this prediction is at all far-fetched.
bdamomma
(63,960 posts)we have an inept government, who does not care about the well being of Americans. Plus we have a very sick SOB in the WH, who referred to those troops who were involved in the attack in Iran as having just headaches, and now they are suffering with Traumatic Brain Injury.
Stick with your local State officials.
Girard442
(6,088 posts)All attempts to screen people by looking for symptoms were mostly theater. It's going to spread through the whole population. Basically we can try to slow the spread while hoping for vaccines and treat as many infected people as well as we can.
Maybe we can get through this in a way that the country doesn't collapse into civil war and fascism while struggling to cope with disease.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)Igel
(35,387 posts)When the S. Koreans tested a lot of folk that might have been infected, they found hundreds with the virus but no symptoms. (And many without the virus--but they couldn't tell if any of those folk had had it and then recovered).
If they hadn't tested the whole group nobody would ever have tested them.
After all, what public health testing protocol says, "Test those suffering from symptoms, as well as those who have no symptoms"?