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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeems the only path forward is a combination of treatments that can keep you alive
Like with HIV/AIDs, there is no full cure but a combination of different medicine/treatments that will prevent you from dying from covid-19. You just live with the disease. There won't be a vaccine for a couple of years, if ever.
Once we have the treatments in place, we can re-open.
Blues Heron
(5,940 posts)Leaving only antibodies in their blood? Your saying everybody becomes permanently infected?
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)You may get it, and you may get really sick, even need hospitalization, but you won't die.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)Some diseases stay with you for life, like chicken pox and Cytomegalovirus, but you are otherwise healthy. (I know, Shingles sucks...) HIV will kill you without medicine.
TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)It's not a permanent, long-term disease. If you're trying to compare it to something like diabetes, you'd be wrong.
We don't know that there won't be a vaccine available. Several are already in trials and showing some promise.
What there likely won't be is a standard treatment, because the reactions to the virus vary widely.
Not sure how conjecture like this helps, but hey, you be you.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)I'm using HIV/AIDs as an example.
flamingdem
(39,320 posts)So this is not going to be enough to reduce fear, at least of those who read medical reports.