I think Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks got the malaria drug. They don’t know if it
worked but they felt better after getting it.
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 10:33 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT still a bit of hope and optimism
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.
I hope you’re right that the medical community has learned how to treat it, but
I haven’t heard the evidence for that.
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.
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
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.
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.
bp<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/20/2020 8:20 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Looks a bit Gaussian to me. I hope...
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