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Michael T. Osterholm is an American public-health scientist and a biosecurity and infectious-disease expert. He just said this will go into next year and without a vaccine, we will probably have to adjust lour lives to it. He said you can't simply shut down major cities for 6 months. He said it will flare up in various places and in different parts of country and have to be addressed as such. He did say they feel immunity will eventually build to it and it could become seasonal like flu.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts).. family clusters not through the public because they didn't know family members who were sick cause a lot of people show little symptoms.
We need unrestricted nationwide testing, isolation, hunkering down and cleaning then we can get on with our lives.
pnwmom
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and a very valid fear of healthcare workers not having them by saying that they don't really help.
They do help, which is why they tell people caring for family members with the virus that the patient and the family members should wear them.
Trump should have ordered factories to start producing them on masse back in January -- because most of ours come from China and South Korea, and they need them for their own people.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... and that's the reason they were them.
Humans will touch their faces a lot during the day getting virus's up in their membranes.
We'll see about the state of Hubie in China and see if they get up and running.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)At some point we're going to have to start living our lives again and the virus will still be here. We need testing so we can selectively quarantine areas as needed and not the entire country.
Also, even though a vaccine is still at least a year away, there will likely be drugs to treat the virus in the coming months.
With sufficient testing and treatments, we can begin to live our lives again well before a vaccine is available.