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goobster · 1465 days ago · link · · parent · post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
"If we can contain and kill the thing..." Are we talking like polio, here?
I guess something like that. Obviously it's a bit early to be talking in those terms, since we don't even have good testing, let alone a vaccine. At least if we had testing, we could probably use convalescent serum (antibodies from patients who are recovered), and it might confer some immunity. That's under testing right now, but I don't have a lot of faith even in that, because to do that properly you need to be able to titrate the dose. That's impossible without relatively precise serology. I keep reading that it's going to be online "next week" and then that week comes and goes with nothing to show.