We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America

[bendog]

MIGAL’s Coronavirus Vaccine Project | MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute

www.migal.org.il

After 4 years of multi-disciplinary research funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture, MIGAL has achieved a scientific breakthrough that will lead to the rapid creation of a vaccine against Coronavirus. This possibility was identified as a by-product of MIGAL’s development of a vaccine against IBV (Infectious Bronchitis Virus), a disease affecting poultry, whose effectiveness has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Volcani Institute. MIGAL has now made required genetic adjustments to adapt the vaccine to COVID-19, the human strain of coronavirus, and is working to achieve the safety approvals that will enable in-vivo testing, enable the initiation of production of a vaccine to counter the Coronavirus epidemic currently spreading throughout the world, which so far has claimed 2,666 lives.

From research conducted at MIGAL, it has been found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human COVID-19, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, a fact that increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'

Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.

www.jpost.com

Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a release.

Please, wait till a wingnut story is vetted.

 

[eagle1462010]

World
We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America
Yaneer Bar-Yam, Opinion contributor
USA TODAY OpinionMarch 21, 2020, 11:30 AM EDT

I am an MIT-trained physicist and complexity scientist who studies pandemics. I have warned about global pandemics due to increasing travel for 15 years. I recommended community based monitoring of symptoms to stop Ebola in West Africa in 2014, and it worked. The fastest and even the only way to contain COVID-19 in the United States is a five-week national lockdown.
Closing schools, bars and movie theaters are good measures, but not enough. Our relaxed approach to social distancing is insufficient to stop the exponential growth of COVID-19. Until Americans consistently adopt strong social distancing recommendations — a lockdown — the disease will continue to spread exponentially.
During a five-week national lockdown, federal, state and local authorities would ensure that all Americans stay home except to obtain food and other essentials, access medical care, or do work essential to the functioning of society. Travel would cease: We would close our borders and airports and prohibit all unnecessary travel across state and county (or town) lines within the United States. The U.S. government would have to provide aid to citizens separated from their sources of income and ensure care for vulnerable members of society.
Lockdown would sharply reduce cases
During the first two weeks of a lockdown, infected individuals will either recover from mild cases of COVID-19 at home or seek medical attention for the 14% of cases that are severe. During the third, fourth and fifth weeks, any newly infected family or cohabitants of infected individuals will recover or seek medical attention and their isolation will prevent further spreading. By the end of the lockdown, the number of infections will be a small fraction of what they are now.

The lockdown will give us time to dramatically scale up our supply of COVID-19 test kits and capacity to process them. If we reduce the number of infections using the lockdown and start a massive testing regime in the United States, we can control COVID-19 after five weeks without such extreme social distancing measures. Isolating sick individuals and their immediate contacts will be enough.

The human and economic costs of delaying this lockdown will be staggering. The COVID-19 outbreak has many more cases now than are visible (tip of the iceberg) and they are growing rapidly. Absent sufficiently effective intervention, new cases will increase 1.3 to 1.5 times each day. We had almost 20,000 cases in the United States on Friday, over 5,800 more cases than the previous day. Without a lockdown, in one week there will be about 200,000. In two weeks: 2,000,000. One in seven cases require hospitalization and 5% require ICU care with ventilators to survive. There aren’t nearly enough ventilators available.

The effectiveness of a five-week lockdown will be dramatic — and also entirely predictable.

We know a U.S. lockdown can work because it worked in China. At the height of its COVID-19 crisis in mid-February, China had locked down an estimated 760 milllion people, approximately half of its population. This policy was so successful that Wuhan is now much safer from coronavirus than New York City or Washington, D.C. The few new COVID-19 cases in China now stem from foreign travelers rather than local transmission, and all are safely quarantined.

We know what we have to do. President Donald Trump and our states' governors and local leaders must act now to save millions of lives.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute, where he is an expert on pandemics and other complex systems. He is spearheading the effort of over 3,000 volunteers working to stop the outbreak at endcoronavirus.org. Follow him on Twitter: @yaneerbaryam

We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America

Locking down the country would reduce infections and allow time for massive testing. There will be staggering human and economic costs if we delay.

www.yahoo.com

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of February 29, 2020
Infections: 68
Deaths: 1

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of March 22, 2020
Infections: 35,000
Deaths: 458

The exponential rise in infections and deaths in just 3 weeks is incredible. Where will the United States be on April 23, 2020 without the lockdown proposed above?

 

[eagle1462010]

MIGAL’s Coronavirus Vaccine Project | MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute

www.migal.org.il

After 4 years of multi-disciplinary research funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture, MIGAL has achieved a scientific breakthrough that will lead to the rapid creation of a vaccine against Coronavirus. This possibility was identified as a by-product of MIGAL’s development of a vaccine against IBV (Infectious Bronchitis Virus), a disease affecting poultry, whose effectiveness has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Volcani Institute. MIGAL has now made required genetic adjustments to adapt the vaccine to COVID-19, the human strain of coronavirus, and is working to achieve the safety approvals that will enable in-vivo testing, enable the initiation of production of a vaccine to counter the Coronavirus epidemic currently spreading throughout the world, which so far has claimed 2,666 lives.

From research conducted at MIGAL, it has been found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human COVID-19, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, a fact that increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'

Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.

www.jpost.com

Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a release.

Please, wait till a wingnut story is vetted.

They have been working on this for 4 years.............And found their research for SARs and others fits right in line with this.

But go ahead...........VET........Still gonna take a lot of time to produce...........and who's first.....

 

[DGS49]

The main benefit of a "Five-Week Shutdown" is that it HAS AN END. The problem now is the anxiety about how long this bullshit will last. Any formal announcement with an end date (and an argument to support it) would be a good thing. People could plan their activities for the spring and summer with some confidence of not having them go up in smoke. Right now, nobody is planning ANYTHING, which is what is killing the economy.

 

[eagle1462010]

Drug developed by UAB and NIH researchers being used to treat Coronavirus patients

The drug Remdesivir, developed by UAB and NIH researchers, is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China.

www.wbrc.com

By Joshua Gauntt | February 27, 2020 at 10:47 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 4:09 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The drug Remdesivir is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China. Researchers developed the investigational drug at UAB’s Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development Center.
"Those studies are what we call placebo controlled. So some patients get drugged and then other patients just get an inactive medication,” Dr. Whitley, a distinguished professor at UAB and principal investigator of the U19 grant said.
UAB was recently awarded a nearly $40 million, five-year-grant to study and develop treatment for emerging infections like coronaviruses that can cause SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 which is the new strain that caused the outbreak in China.
Dr. Whitley tells us studies are also beginning in the U.S. Early results from the drug being used in China should be back sometime in April. Whitley says if it’s successful and safe for people to take then full production could begin.
"If it is, then we’ll have a theoretical solution to disease in the United States. It will be a question of producing enough drug so if Americans have disease at the frequency that they did in China or now south Korea or Italy, we’ll have enough drug for all Americans,” Whitley added.

 

[CowboyTed]

In a perfect world a 5-week shutdown is doable.
However, the US economy needs to run in order to function.
Curing the virus while killing the economy is a net loss.
We're on day-8 of Pence's 15-day crucial period to control COVID-19, get medications approved, and then start getting the economy back to work.
I'm sure that limited work w/o big crowds is a good start.
Then in 5-weeks allow more people back to work.

Don't mean to be rude but sitting back and waiting see is not the way to handle this.

This virus will murder any economy. Supposed ROW clears them selves of the virus do you think they will allow people to leave infected areas to non-infected areas...

Trump and Boris learnt the hard way that you can't ignore this and hope it will pass. There are huge areas not infected in US, put non infected areas on lockdown for 10 days and get no new cases this makes them clear, stop all travel from infected to clear areas.

Then start walking the virus back one area at time... Clear areas go back to normal except they can't travel to infected and come back without 10 day Quarantine.

Europe is showing what can happen and US has 11 days on them but are already behind on testing...

 

[kyzr]

MIGAL’s Coronavirus Vaccine Project | MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute

www.migal.org.il

After 4 years of multi-disciplinary research funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture, MIGAL has achieved a scientific breakthrough that will lead to the rapid creation of a vaccine against Coronavirus. This possibility was identified as a by-product of MIGAL’s development of a vaccine against IBV (Infectious Bronchitis Virus), a disease affecting poultry, whose effectiveness has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Volcani Institute. MIGAL has now made required genetic adjustments to adapt the vaccine to COVID-19, the human strain of coronavirus, and is working to achieve the safety approvals that will enable in-vivo testing, enable the initiation of production of a vaccine to counter the Coronavirus epidemic currently spreading throughout the world, which so far has claimed 2,666 lives.

From research conducted at MIGAL, it has been found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human COVID-19, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, a fact that increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'

Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.

www.jpost.com

Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a release.

Please, wait till a wingnut story is vetted.

They have been working on this for 4 years.............And found their research for SARs and others fits right in line with this.

But go ahead...........VET........Still gonna take a lot of time to produce...........and who's first.....

I'm confused as to why in 2009 the CDC could develop and approve a vaccine for H1N1 in about 5-months, and today, in 2020 it takes 12-18 months to develop a vaccine. WTF? 2009 H1N1 Flu Pandemic Timeline
April 21 CDC started work on vaccine
September 15th FDA approved vaccine

 

[CowboyTed]

Drug developed by UAB and NIH researchers being used to treat Coronavirus patients

The drug Remdesivir, developed by UAB and NIH researchers, is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China.

www.wbrc.com

By Joshua Gauntt | February 27, 2020 at 10:47 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 4:09 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The drug Remdesivir is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China. Researchers developed the investigational drug at UAB’s Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development Center.
"Those studies are what we call placebo controlled. So some patients get drugged and then other patients just get an inactive medication,” Dr. Whitley, a distinguished professor at UAB and principal investigator of the U19 grant said.
UAB was recently awarded a nearly $40 million, five-year-grant to study and develop treatment for emerging infections like coronaviruses that can cause SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 which is the new strain that caused the outbreak in China.
Dr. Whitley tells us studies are also beginning in the U.S. Early results from the drug being used in China should be back sometime in April. Whitley says if it’s successful and safe for people to take then full production could begin.
"If it is, then we’ll have a theoretical solution to disease in the United States. It will be a question of producing enough drug so if Americans have disease at the frequency that they did in China or now south Korea or Italy, we’ll have enough drug for all Americans,” Whitley added.

Remdesivir is bit of a Hail Mary shot... Worth a go and there is more than that drug been tried... There also the Malaria and the German one...

Even if they found the vaccine tomorrow, production would take months to give the drug at the levels needed... We have problems right now adn in the next few months..

 

[eagle1462010]

MIGAL’s Coronavirus Vaccine Project | MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute

www.migal.org.il

After 4 years of multi-disciplinary research funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture, MIGAL has achieved a scientific breakthrough that will lead to the rapid creation of a vaccine against Coronavirus. This possibility was identified as a by-product of MIGAL’s development of a vaccine against IBV (Infectious Bronchitis Virus), a disease affecting poultry, whose effectiveness has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Volcani Institute. MIGAL has now made required genetic adjustments to adapt the vaccine to COVID-19, the human strain of coronavirus, and is working to achieve the safety approvals that will enable in-vivo testing, enable the initiation of production of a vaccine to counter the Coronavirus epidemic currently spreading throughout the world, which so far has claimed 2,666 lives.

From research conducted at MIGAL, it has been found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human COVID-19, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, a fact that increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'

Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.

www.jpost.com

Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a release.

Please, wait till a wingnut story is vetted.

They have been working on this for 4 years.............And found their research for SARs and others fits right in line with this.

But go ahead...........VET........Still gonna take a lot of time to produce...........and who's first.....

I'm confused as to why in 2009 the CDC could develop and approve a vaccine for H1N1 in about 5-months, and today, in 2020 it takes 12-18 months to develop a vaccine. WTF? 2009 H1N1 Flu Pandemic Timeline
April 21 CDC started work on vaccine
September 15th FDA approved vaccine

Doesn't fit the Narrative that Trump Sucks..........both articles I showed were YEARS OF WORK.........for what we are having today.....

UAB was looking at it for 4 years....and have tested for years.......treatment

In Israel...........they were looking at Chickens.....and found that their years of research could easily swap to this.........

But making BILLIONS OF DOSES......well that is a problem

These Nay sayers here..............are Pessimist to hell and back........why I am Mocking them......in 1968 a pandemic went down......killed a Million on earth......There was just no cell phones or internet...........so life went on...........the Media wasn't like it is today.........

Over 100,000 Americans died from it............but we NEED THE HYSTERIA NOW........and destroy our economy from it......

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

World
We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America
Yaneer Bar-Yam, Opinion contributor
USA TODAY OpinionMarch 21, 2020, 11:30 AM EDT

I am an MIT-trained physicist and complexity scientist who studies pandemics. I have warned about global pandemics due to increasing travel for 15 years. I recommended community based monitoring of symptoms to stop Ebola in West Africa in 2014, and it worked. The fastest and even the only way to contain COVID-19 in the United States is a five-week national lockdown.
Closing schools, bars and movie theaters are good measures, but not enough. Our relaxed approach to social distancing is insufficient to stop the exponential growth of COVID-19. Until Americans consistently adopt strong social distancing recommendations — a lockdown — the disease will continue to spread exponentially.
During a five-week national lockdown, federal, state and local authorities would ensure that all Americans stay home except to obtain food and other essentials, access medical care, or do work essential to the functioning of society. Travel would cease: We would close our borders and airports and prohibit all unnecessary travel across state and county (or town) lines within the United States. The U.S. government would have to provide aid to citizens separated from their sources of income and ensure care for vulnerable members of society.
Lockdown would sharply reduce cases
During the first two weeks of a lockdown, infected individuals will either recover from mild cases of COVID-19 at home or seek medical attention for the 14% of cases that are severe. During the third, fourth and fifth weeks, any newly infected family or cohabitants of infected individuals will recover or seek medical attention and their isolation will prevent further spreading. By the end of the lockdown, the number of infections will be a small fraction of what they are now.

The lockdown will give us time to dramatically scale up our supply of COVID-19 test kits and capacity to process them. If we reduce the number of infections using the lockdown and start a massive testing regime in the United States, we can control COVID-19 after five weeks without such extreme social distancing measures. Isolating sick individuals and their immediate contacts will be enough.

The human and economic costs of delaying this lockdown will be staggering. The COVID-19 outbreak has many more cases now than are visible (tip of the iceberg) and they are growing rapidly. Absent sufficiently effective intervention, new cases will increase 1.3 to 1.5 times each day. We had almost 20,000 cases in the United States on Friday, over 5,800 more cases than the previous day. Without a lockdown, in one week there will be about 200,000. In two weeks: 2,000,000. One in seven cases require hospitalization and 5% require ICU care with ventilators to survive. There aren’t nearly enough ventilators available.

The effectiveness of a five-week lockdown will be dramatic — and also entirely predictable.

We know a U.S. lockdown can work because it worked in China. At the height of its COVID-19 crisis in mid-February, China had locked down an estimated 760 milllion people, approximately half of its population. This policy was so successful that Wuhan is now much safer from coronavirus than New York City or Washington, D.C. The few new COVID-19 cases in China now stem from foreign travelers rather than local transmission, and all are safely quarantined.

We know what we have to do. President Donald Trump and our states' governors and local leaders must act now to save millions of lives.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute, where he is an expert on pandemics and other complex systems. He is spearheading the effort of over 3,000 volunteers working to stop the outbreak at endcoronavirus.org. Follow him on Twitter: @yaneerbaryam

We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America

Locking down the country would reduce infections and allow time for massive testing. There will be staggering human and economic costs if we delay.

www.yahoo.com

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of February 29, 2020
Infections: 68
Deaths: 1

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of March 22, 2020
Infections: 35,000
Deaths: 458

The exponential rise in infections and deaths in just 3 weeks is incredible. Where will the United States be on April 23, 2020 without the lockdown proposed above?

Not Happening!

 

[eagle1462010]

Drug developed by UAB and NIH researchers being used to treat Coronavirus patients

The drug Remdesivir, developed by UAB and NIH researchers, is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China.

www.wbrc.com

By Joshua Gauntt | February 27, 2020 at 10:47 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 4:09 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The drug Remdesivir is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China. Researchers developed the investigational drug at UAB’s Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development Center.
"Those studies are what we call placebo controlled. So some patients get drugged and then other patients just get an inactive medication,” Dr. Whitley, a distinguished professor at UAB and principal investigator of the U19 grant said.
UAB was recently awarded a nearly $40 million, five-year-grant to study and develop treatment for emerging infections like coronaviruses that can cause SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 which is the new strain that caused the outbreak in China.
Dr. Whitley tells us studies are also beginning in the U.S. Early results from the drug being used in China should be back sometime in April. Whitley says if it’s successful and safe for people to take then full production could begin.
"If it is, then we’ll have a theoretical solution to disease in the United States. It will be a question of producing enough drug so if Americans have disease at the frequency that they did in China or now south Korea or Italy, we’ll have enough drug for all Americans,” Whitley added.

Remdesivir is bit of a Hail Mary shot... Worth a go and there is more than that drug been tried... There also the Malaria and the German one...

Even if they found the vaccine tomorrow, production would take months to give the drug at the levels needed... We have problems right now adn in the next few months..

Of course.......but they say 90 days not 18 months.........

The other study has been going on for the other diseases of this class........there is another company in Texas that think they have the vaccine..another in Washington State.....

Whoever makes this vaccine is gonna be RICH AS HELL......Never underestimate that..............EVER.

 

[22lcidw]

I don't disagree with the op in principle. Staggering shutdowns across the nation is not effective because we all travel. So KC is shut down now but residents later travel to an area that wasn't shut down and bring the virus back to KC after the lockdown. Patchwork bandaids will just prolong this.
Having said that until Congress passes laws preventing utilities and landlords from punishing the lower classes who work paycheck to paycheck a national shutdown could be devastating on them. They need to get this legislation done and have the aid prepared to go stat.

Totally agree that a 5-week shutdown would devastate the economy and the people. Who can survive w/o working for 5-weeks? Not many
A middle of the road approach (2 or 3 week shutdown) would reduce infections to an acceptable level and keep the economy afloat.

Our shutdown in KC starts tonight at midnight and lasts for about 3.5 weeks.
For the pain it is about to cause I hope it is worth it.

History will call them......the last Super Bowl Champions...just a little amusement.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Drug developed by UAB and NIH researchers being used to treat Coronavirus patients

The drug Remdesivir, developed by UAB and NIH researchers, is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China.

www.wbrc.com

By Joshua Gauntt | February 27, 2020 at 10:47 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 4:09 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The drug Remdesivir is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China. Researchers developed the investigational drug at UAB’s Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development Center.
"Those studies are what we call placebo controlled. So some patients get drugged and then other patients just get an inactive medication,” Dr. Whitley, a distinguished professor at UAB and principal investigator of the U19 grant said.
UAB was recently awarded a nearly $40 million, five-year-grant to study and develop treatment for emerging infections like coronaviruses that can cause SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 which is the new strain that caused the outbreak in China.
Dr. Whitley tells us studies are also beginning in the U.S. Early results from the drug being used in China should be back sometime in April. Whitley says if it’s successful and safe for people to take then full production could begin.
"If it is, then we’ll have a theoretical solution to disease in the United States. It will be a question of producing enough drug so if Americans have disease at the frequency that they did in China or now south Korea or Italy, we’ll have enough drug for all Americans,” Whitley added.

Remdesivir is bit of a Hail Mary shot... Worth a go and there is more than that drug been tried... There also the Malaria and the German one...

Even if they found the vaccine tomorrow, production would take months to give the drug at the levels needed... We have problems right now adn in the next few months..

Any vaccine that is rushed to the market is more dangerous than the virus in my opinion. I have COPD and would still take my chances with the virus than some untested vaccine

 

[eagle1462010]

Drug developed by UAB and NIH researchers being used to treat Coronavirus patients

The drug Remdesivir, developed by UAB and NIH researchers, is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China.

www.wbrc.com

By Joshua Gauntt | February 27, 2020 at 10:47 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 4:09 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The drug Remdesivir is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China. Researchers developed the investigational drug at UAB’s Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development Center.
"Those studies are what we call placebo controlled. So some patients get drugged and then other patients just get an inactive medication,” Dr. Whitley, a distinguished professor at UAB and principal investigator of the U19 grant said.
UAB was recently awarded a nearly $40 million, five-year-grant to study and develop treatment for emerging infections like coronaviruses that can cause SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 which is the new strain that caused the outbreak in China.
Dr. Whitley tells us studies are also beginning in the U.S. Early results from the drug being used in China should be back sometime in April. Whitley says if it’s successful and safe for people to take then full production could begin.
"If it is, then we’ll have a theoretical solution to disease in the United States. It will be a question of producing enough drug so if Americans have disease at the frequency that they did in China or now south Korea or Italy, we’ll have enough drug for all Americans,” Whitley added.

Remdesivir is bit of a Hail Mary shot... Worth a go and there is more than that drug been tried... There also the Malaria and the German one...

Even if they found the vaccine tomorrow, production would take months to give the drug at the levels needed... We have problems right now adn in the next few months..

Any vaccine that is rushed to the market is more dangerous than the virus in my opinion. I have COPD and would still take my chances with the virus than some untested vaccine

They go into testing in a couple of weeks........You live in a Free Country........your choice....

Will not be mandated here.............And who said they would RUSH IT..........Will take time.........but the companies out there are doing the job.....

This PANIC and Fear mongering does NOTHING .............it only makes it worse......

As ODDBALL WOULD SAY.......Enough with the NEGATIVE WAVES.

 

[jc456]

I don't disagree with the op in principle. Staggering shutdowns across the nation is not effective because we all travel. So KC is shut down now but residents later travel to an area that wasn't shut down and bring the virus back to KC after the lockdown. Patchwork bandaids will just prolong this.
Having said that until Congress passes laws preventing utilities and landlords from punishing the lower classes who work paycheck to paycheck a national shutdown could be devastating on them. They need to get this legislation done and have the aid prepared to go stat.

Totally agree that a 5-week shutdown would devastate the economy and the people. Who can survive w/o working for 5-weeks? Not many
A middle of the road approach (2 or 3 week shutdown) would reduce infections to an acceptable level and keep the economy afloat.

Humans need food, water, shelter, and clothing to survive. The economy can be redirected to supplying just those needs until the pandemic is defeated. This is a war and you have to do what is necessary to win!

I agree with you to the extent that it is a war, but while COVID-19 is extremely contagious, it is not very deadly.
COVID-19 is not as deadly as the normal flu we see every year, and ignore without even noticing?!
The normal flu season kills 40,000 to 60,000 Americans every year. Burden of Influenza

COVID-19 won't even be as deadly as the swine flu was in 2009, that killed 12,500, under Obama's admin.

Today there are 458 deaths attributed to COVID-19, and that is without any therapies like:

Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine and other potential COVID-19 treatments explained | TechCrunch

During two of this week's White House briefings, President Trump referred specifically to two potential treatments that have been identified by medical

techcrunch.com

I'm hoping that your pushing for a 5-week economic shutdown isn't politically motivated just to help Sleazy Joe?

How deadly a pathogen is, is determined by the rate of death for THOSE INFECTED!

The Flu has a death rate of about .1% at its highest. The coronavirus has a death rate of 4.4% based on the latest global infection and death numbers.

So this is 44 more times deadly than the seasonal flu!
PLUS THERE IS NO VACCINE!

IF you allow a pathogen to spread that is 44 times more deadly than seasonal flu, with no vaccine available, you are going to kill millions of people around the world. Lockdown is the response to this problem.

In 2009 with H1N1, there was a vaccine. I know because I received it.

oh for fk sake, shut the fk up

Sorry, not going to.

I'll keep telling you to. deal with it. shut the fk up.

 

[jc456]

Drug developed by UAB and NIH researchers being used to treat Coronavirus patients

The drug Remdesivir, developed by UAB and NIH researchers, is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China.

www.wbrc.com

By Joshua Gauntt | February 27, 2020 at 10:47 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 4:09 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The drug Remdesivir is now being used to treat certain coronavirus patients in China. Researchers developed the investigational drug at UAB’s Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development Center.
"Those studies are what we call placebo controlled. So some patients get drugged and then other patients just get an inactive medication,” Dr. Whitley, a distinguished professor at UAB and principal investigator of the U19 grant said.
UAB was recently awarded a nearly $40 million, five-year-grant to study and develop treatment for emerging infections like coronaviruses that can cause SARS, MERS and the COVID-19 which is the new strain that caused the outbreak in China.
Dr. Whitley tells us studies are also beginning in the U.S. Early results from the drug being used in China should be back sometime in April. Whitley says if it’s successful and safe for people to take then full production could begin.
"If it is, then we’ll have a theoretical solution to disease in the United States. It will be a question of producing enough drug so if Americans have disease at the frequency that they did in China or now south Korea or Italy, we’ll have enough drug for all Americans,” Whitley added.

Remdesivir is bit of a Hail Mary shot... Worth a go and there is more than that drug been tried... There also the Malaria and the German one...

Even if they found the vaccine tomorrow, production would take months to give the drug at the levels needed... We have problems right now adn in the next few months..

Any vaccine that is rushed to the market is more dangerous than the virus in my opinion. I have COPD and would still take my chances with the virus than some untested vaccine

They go into testing in a couple of weeks........You live in a Free Country........your choice....

Will not be mandated here.............And who said they would RUSH IT..........Will take time.........but the companies out there are doing the job.....

This PANIC and Fear mongering does NOTHING .............it only makes it worse......

As ODDBALL WOULD SAY.......Enough with the NEGATIVE WAVES.

dude they think all governors and hospitals created orders for all the quantities they're looking for. oh wait, no they didn't. but these dumb asses think they were sitting on shelves. too fking funny.

 

[CowboyTed]

MIGAL’s Coronavirus Vaccine Project | MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute

www.migal.org.il

After 4 years of multi-disciplinary research funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture, MIGAL has achieved a scientific breakthrough that will lead to the rapid creation of a vaccine against Coronavirus. This possibility was identified as a by-product of MIGAL’s development of a vaccine against IBV (Infectious Bronchitis Virus), a disease affecting poultry, whose effectiveness has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Volcani Institute. MIGAL has now made required genetic adjustments to adapt the vaccine to COVID-19, the human strain of coronavirus, and is working to achieve the safety approvals that will enable in-vivo testing, enable the initiation of production of a vaccine to counter the Coronavirus epidemic currently spreading throughout the world, which so far has claimed 2,666 lives.

From research conducted at MIGAL, it has been found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human COVID-19, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, a fact that increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'

Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.

www.jpost.com

Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a release.

Please, wait till a wingnut story is vetted.

They have been working on this for 4 years.............And found their research for SARs and others fits right in line with this.

But go ahead...........VET........Still gonna take a lot of time to produce...........and who's first.....

I'm confused as to why in 2009 the CDC could develop and approve a vaccine for H1N1 in about 5-months, and today, in 2020 it takes 12-18 months to develop a vaccine. WTF? 2009 H1N1 Flu Pandemic Timeline
April 21 CDC started work on vaccine
September 15th FDA approved vaccine

The H1N1 influenza virus first emerged in 1918 and was known as the 1918 Spanish flu. Work to develop a vaccine began in 1931 and a vaccine became commercially available in 1945. Over the next 80 years further refinement to the methods were made to improve production efficiency, safety and efficacy of vaccine itself. The H1N1 virus has changed over time, starting outbreaks whenever it become different enough to avoid our immune system.

Whenever we make a new flu vaccine against the seasonal H1N1 outbreak, you are looking at a process that has 90 years of refinement.

Also it helps tremendously that the influenza virus can be cultured in chicken eggs. We can get a lot of chicken eggs relatively easily. Coronavirus. like Covid19 has to be cultured in human cell culture. It is a lot more expensive and slower to grow large quantities of human cells.

 

[Contumacious]

World
We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America
Yaneer Bar-Yam, Opinion contributor
USA TODAY OpinionMarch 21, 2020, 11:30 AM EDT

I am an MIT-trained physicist and complexity scientist who studies pandemics. I have warned about global pandemics due to increasing travel for 15 years. I recommended community based monitoring of symptoms to stop Ebola in West Africa in 2014, and it worked. The fastest and even the only way to contain COVID-19 in the United States is a five-week national lockdown.
Closing schools, bars and movie theaters are good measures, but not enough. Our relaxed approach to social distancing is insufficient to stop the exponential growth of COVID-19. Until Americans consistently adopt strong social distancing recommendations — a lockdown — the disease will continue to spread exponentially.
During a five-week national lockdown, federal, state and local authorities would ensure that all Americans stay home except to obtain food and other essentials, access medical care, or do work essential to the functioning of society. Travel would cease: We would close our borders and airports and prohibit all unnecessary travel across state and county (or town) lines within the United States. The U.S. government would have to provide aid to citizens separated from their sources of income and ensure care for vulnerable members of society.
Lockdown would sharply reduce cases
During the first two weeks of a lockdown, infected individuals will either recover from mild cases of COVID-19 at home or seek medical attention for the 14% of cases that are severe. During the third, fourth and fifth weeks, any newly infected family or cohabitants of infected individuals will recover or seek medical attention and their isolation will prevent further spreading. By the end of the lockdown, the number of infections will be a small fraction of what they are now.

The lockdown will give us time to dramatically scale up our supply of COVID-19 test kits and capacity to process them. If we reduce the number of infections using the lockdown and start a massive testing regime in the United States, we can control COVID-19 after five weeks without such extreme social distancing measures. Isolating sick individuals and their immediate contacts will be enough.

The human and economic costs of delaying this lockdown will be staggering. The COVID-19 outbreak has many more cases now than are visible (tip of the iceberg) and they are growing rapidly. Absent sufficiently effective intervention, new cases will increase 1.3 to 1.5 times each day. We had almost 20,000 cases in the United States on Friday, over 5,800 more cases than the previous day. Without a lockdown, in one week there will be about 200,000. In two weeks: 2,000,000. One in seven cases require hospitalization and 5% require ICU care with ventilators to survive. There aren’t nearly enough ventilators available.

The effectiveness of a five-week lockdown will be dramatic — and also entirely predictable.

We know a U.S. lockdown can work because it worked in China. At the height of its COVID-19 crisis in mid-February, China had locked down an estimated 760 milllion people, approximately half of its population. This policy was so successful that Wuhan is now much safer from coronavirus than New York City or Washington, D.C. The few new COVID-19 cases in China now stem from foreign travelers rather than local transmission, and all are safely quarantined.

We know what we have to do. President Donald Trump and our states' governors and local leaders must act now to save millions of lives.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute, where he is an expert on pandemics and other complex systems. He is spearheading the effort of over 3,000 volunteers working to stop the outbreak at endcoronavirus.org. Follow him on Twitter: @yaneerbaryam

We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America

Locking down the country would reduce infections and allow time for massive testing. There will be staggering human and economic costs if we delay.

www.yahoo.com

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of February 29, 2020
Infections: 68
Deaths: 1

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of March 22, 2020
Infections: 35,000
Deaths: 458

The exponential rise in infections and deaths in just 3 weeks is incredible. Where will the United States be on April 23, 2020 without the lockdown proposed above?

STFU

The ONLY things that need to be shutdown are the Demo Rats, Lamestream Media and Deep State.

How Coronavirus Cases in The U.S. Are Going to Explode Out of Nowhere

In a prior report I revealed the spring equinox (March 19) marks the beginning of the earth tilting back towards the sun and an increase solar ultraviolet radiation which results in elevate vitamin D levels in human populations that will abolish coronavirus cases and death. I also indicated quarantines will be counterproductive and force people indoors and further deprive them of life-saving vitamin D.
Ron Klain, the ex-federal EBOLA CZAR, issued a warning that coronavirus cases are going to “explode” in the U.S. On Thursday, March 19, 4,940 new cases were reported. Coronavirus deaths are also predicted to rise precipitously. But here is how this ruse is accomplished.


Buried in the news report is this language: “numbers in the U.S. are rising sharply partly because testing is being more widespread.”


So indiscriminate news reports will sound alarming because news agencies want to capture readership. This parade of irresponsible news reports is anticipated to raise levels of anxiety in the American population at large. The “What do we do now?” panic sets in.


Because there are more cases of coronavirus infection reported with more testing, and because testing produces a high percentage of false positive tests that falsely indicate a person has the disease when they don’t, it will be easy to mislead the public and cause the public to accept draconian community lockdowns. Just the intentional withholding of toilet paper supplies could provoke civilian unrest and cause the public to clamor for troops in the streets to halt civil unrest.

 

[jc456]

World
We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America
Yaneer Bar-Yam, Opinion contributor
USA TODAY OpinionMarch 21, 2020, 11:30 AM EDT

I am an MIT-trained physicist and complexity scientist who studies pandemics. I have warned about global pandemics due to increasing travel for 15 years. I recommended community based monitoring of symptoms to stop Ebola in West Africa in 2014, and it worked. The fastest and even the only way to contain COVID-19 in the United States is a five-week national lockdown.
Closing schools, bars and movie theaters are good measures, but not enough. Our relaxed approach to social distancing is insufficient to stop the exponential growth of COVID-19. Until Americans consistently adopt strong social distancing recommendations — a lockdown — the disease will continue to spread exponentially.
During a five-week national lockdown, federal, state and local authorities would ensure that all Americans stay home except to obtain food and other essentials, access medical care, or do work essential to the functioning of society. Travel would cease: We would close our borders and airports and prohibit all unnecessary travel across state and county (or town) lines within the United States. The U.S. government would have to provide aid to citizens separated from their sources of income and ensure care for vulnerable members of society.
Lockdown would sharply reduce cases
During the first two weeks of a lockdown, infected individuals will either recover from mild cases of COVID-19 at home or seek medical attention for the 14% of cases that are severe. During the third, fourth and fifth weeks, any newly infected family or cohabitants of infected individuals will recover or seek medical attention and their isolation will prevent further spreading. By the end of the lockdown, the number of infections will be a small fraction of what they are now.

The lockdown will give us time to dramatically scale up our supply of COVID-19 test kits and capacity to process them. If we reduce the number of infections using the lockdown and start a massive testing regime in the United States, we can control COVID-19 after five weeks without such extreme social distancing measures. Isolating sick individuals and their immediate contacts will be enough.

The human and economic costs of delaying this lockdown will be staggering. The COVID-19 outbreak has many more cases now than are visible (tip of the iceberg) and they are growing rapidly. Absent sufficiently effective intervention, new cases will increase 1.3 to 1.5 times each day. We had almost 20,000 cases in the United States on Friday, over 5,800 more cases than the previous day. Without a lockdown, in one week there will be about 200,000. In two weeks: 2,000,000. One in seven cases require hospitalization and 5% require ICU care with ventilators to survive. There aren’t nearly enough ventilators available.

The effectiveness of a five-week lockdown will be dramatic — and also entirely predictable.

We know a U.S. lockdown can work because it worked in China. At the height of its COVID-19 crisis in mid-February, China had locked down an estimated 760 milllion people, approximately half of its population. This policy was so successful that Wuhan is now much safer from coronavirus than New York City or Washington, D.C. The few new COVID-19 cases in China now stem from foreign travelers rather than local transmission, and all are safely quarantined.

We know what we have to do. President Donald Trump and our states' governors and local leaders must act now to save millions of lives.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute, where he is an expert on pandemics and other complex systems. He is spearheading the effort of over 3,000 volunteers working to stop the outbreak at endcoronavirus.org. Follow him on Twitter: @yaneerbaryam

We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America

Locking down the country would reduce infections and allow time for massive testing. There will be staggering human and economic costs if we delay.

www.yahoo.com

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of February 29, 2020
Infections: 68
Deaths: 1

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of March 22, 2020
Infections: 35,000
Deaths: 458

The exponential rise in infections and deaths in just 3 weeks is incredible. Where will the United States be on April 23, 2020 without the lockdown proposed above?

Well, this is what a Nobel Laureate and Stanford biophysicist has to say about it and it looks like correctly predicted the Chinese evolution of the virus. You know, the guys who know shit from Shinola. I suggest you read the article if you want to be rational.

Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted.

Now he foresees a similar outcome in the United States and the rest of the world.

While many epidemiologists are warning of months, or even years, of massive social disruption and millions of deaths, Levitt says the data simply don't support such a dire scenario — especially in areas where reasonable social distancing measures are in place.

Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: 'We're going to be fine'

A Nobel laureate predicted China's recovery weeks before it happened. Analyzing the numbers, he sees a much brighter global outcome than many experts.

news.yahoo.com

I want them to explain how people are still catching it if we isolated? they make absolutely no sense. they remain unlogical. It's how I know now it is a hoax. People getting sick perhaps have the flu. no one will ever know. funny how no new numbers for the flu since this, when the number of deaths for flu was >20,000. It's happened every year since they have been collecting statistics.

 

[jc456]

World
We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America
Yaneer Bar-Yam, Opinion contributor
USA TODAY OpinionMarch 21, 2020, 11:30 AM EDT

I am an MIT-trained physicist and complexity scientist who studies pandemics. I have warned about global pandemics due to increasing travel for 15 years. I recommended community based monitoring of symptoms to stop Ebola in West Africa in 2014, and it worked. The fastest and even the only way to contain COVID-19 in the United States is a five-week national lockdown.
Closing schools, bars and movie theaters are good measures, but not enough. Our relaxed approach to social distancing is insufficient to stop the exponential growth of COVID-19. Until Americans consistently adopt strong social distancing recommendations — a lockdown — the disease will continue to spread exponentially.
During a five-week national lockdown, federal, state and local authorities would ensure that all Americans stay home except to obtain food and other essentials, access medical care, or do work essential to the functioning of society. Travel would cease: We would close our borders and airports and prohibit all unnecessary travel across state and county (or town) lines within the United States. The U.S. government would have to provide aid to citizens separated from their sources of income and ensure care for vulnerable members of society.
Lockdown would sharply reduce cases
During the first two weeks of a lockdown, infected individuals will either recover from mild cases of COVID-19 at home or seek medical attention for the 14% of cases that are severe. During the third, fourth and fifth weeks, any newly infected family or cohabitants of infected individuals will recover or seek medical attention and their isolation will prevent further spreading. By the end of the lockdown, the number of infections will be a small fraction of what they are now.

The lockdown will give us time to dramatically scale up our supply of COVID-19 test kits and capacity to process them. If we reduce the number of infections using the lockdown and start a massive testing regime in the United States, we can control COVID-19 after five weeks without such extreme social distancing measures. Isolating sick individuals and their immediate contacts will be enough.

The human and economic costs of delaying this lockdown will be staggering. The COVID-19 outbreak has many more cases now than are visible (tip of the iceberg) and they are growing rapidly. Absent sufficiently effective intervention, new cases will increase 1.3 to 1.5 times each day. We had almost 20,000 cases in the United States on Friday, over 5,800 more cases than the previous day. Without a lockdown, in one week there will be about 200,000. In two weeks: 2,000,000. One in seven cases require hospitalization and 5% require ICU care with ventilators to survive. There aren’t nearly enough ventilators available.

The effectiveness of a five-week lockdown will be dramatic — and also entirely predictable.

We know a U.S. lockdown can work because it worked in China. At the height of its COVID-19 crisis in mid-February, China had locked down an estimated 760 milllion people, approximately half of its population. This policy was so successful that Wuhan is now much safer from coronavirus than New York City or Washington, D.C. The few new COVID-19 cases in China now stem from foreign travelers rather than local transmission, and all are safely quarantined.

We know what we have to do. President Donald Trump and our states' governors and local leaders must act now to save millions of lives.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute, where he is an expert on pandemics and other complex systems. He is spearheading the effort of over 3,000 volunteers working to stop the outbreak at endcoronavirus.org. Follow him on Twitter: @yaneerbaryam

We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America

Locking down the country would reduce infections and allow time for massive testing. There will be staggering human and economic costs if we delay.

www.yahoo.com

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of February 29, 2020
Infections: 68
Deaths: 1

United States Infections and deaths from Coronavirus as of March 22, 2020
Infections: 35,000
Deaths: 458

The exponential rise in infections and deaths in just 3 weeks is incredible. Where will the United States be on April 23, 2020 without the lockdown proposed above?

STFU

The ONLY things that need to be shutdown are the Demo Rats, Lamestream Media and Deep State.

How Coronavirus Cases in The U.S. Are Going to Explode Out of Nowhere

In a prior report I revealed the spring equinox (March 19) marks the beginning of the earth tilting back towards the sun and an increase solar ultraviolet radiation which results in elevate vitamin D levels in human populations that will abolish coronavirus cases and death. I also indicated quarantines will be counterproductive and force people indoors and further deprive them of life-saving vitamin D.
Ron Klain, the ex-federal EBOLA CZAR, issued a warning that coronavirus cases are going to “explode” in the U.S. On Thursday, March 19, 4,940 new cases were reported. Coronavirus deaths are also predicted to rise precipitously. But here is how this ruse is accomplished.


Buried in the news report is this language: “numbers in the U.S. are rising sharply partly because testing is being more widespread.”


So indiscriminate news reports will sound alarming because news agencies want to capture readership. This parade of irresponsible news reports is anticipated to raise levels of anxiety in the American population at large. The “What do we do now?” panic sets in.


Because there are more cases of coronavirus infection reported with more testing, and because testing produces a high percentage of false positive tests that falsely indicate a person has the disease when they don’t, it will be easy to mislead the public and cause the public to accept draconian community lockdowns. Just the intentional withholding of toilet paper supplies could provoke civilian unrest and cause the public to clamor for troops in the streets to halt civil unrest.

well remember the jim jones statement that if you have no symptoms you have it. Only in a koolaid drinkers mind.

BTW, every human has cancer cells, and we all don't get cancer. shit I wish these uninformed nats would go away.