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Old Mar 12, 2020 | 7:41 pm
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Originally Posted by TravelingZoomer
It’s about delaying the spread so the government has time to build up medical resources and/or find a cure.
if you watch the video that was linked upthread, if there is an effective vaccine it will be at best 2 months, most likely more. The randomized trials of antiviral treatment are underway. It will be a few weeks/months before they have enough numbers to make a call on treatment. So there will be no cure. The virus mutates.
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