SARS Pt. 2 - Wuhan Boogaloo

[Montegriffo]

How is it possible that California only has about 200 test kits for coronavirus?
The UK has already tested over 7000 people.

[Speaker to Animals]

How is it possible that California only has about 200 test kits for coronavirus?
The UK has already tested over 7000 people.

Welcome to our shit show. You do not have to go on the tv to tell the people you fucked up and we have community spread if you do not test for community spread. You can use weasel words like “we have seen no evidence of community spread.”

[TheReal_ND]

Chinese people are good at math. We should import Chinese number crunchers.

[Montegriffo]

How is it possible that California only has about 200 test kits for coronavirus?
The UK has already tested over 7000 people.

Welcome to our shit show. You do not have to go on the tv to tell the people you fucked up and we have community spread if you do not test for community spread. You can use weasel words like “we have seen no evidence of community spread.”

Well it doesn't help that Trump is so scared of an economic crash that he is telling you everything is ok and it will be all over soon. Also Rush Limbaugh has said that it's just the common cold and a Democratic plot to bring down Trump.
That's fucked up.

Trump is a known germaphobe too.
They really don't give a shit about you do they?
Bernie and his socialised healthcare must be looking pretty good to you now.

[SuburbanFarmer]

How is it possible that California only has about 200 test kits for coronavirus?
The UK has already tested over 7000 people.

Welcome to our shit show. You do not have to go on the tv to tell the people you fucked up and we have community spread if you do not test for community spread. You can use weasel words like “we have seen no evidence of community spread.”

Well it doesn't help that Trump is so scared of an economic crash that he is telling you everything is ok and it will be all over soon. Also Rush Limbaugh has said that it's just the common cold and a Democratic plot to bring down Trump.
That's fucked up.

Trump is a known germaphobe too.
They really don't give a shit about you do they?
Bernie and his socialised healthcare must be looking pretty good to you now.

This is the endgame of unrestricted Corporatism. Learn from our failure.

[TheReal_ND]

Fuck that commie kike. I would rather die from wuflu. Bernie supporters get the rope too.

[TheReal_ND]

Welcome to our shit show. You do not have to go on the tv to tell the people you fucked up and we have community spread if you do not test for community spread. You can use weasel words like “we have seen no evidence of community spread.”

Well it doesn't help that Trump is so scared of an economic crash that he is telling you everything is ok and it will be all over soon. Also Rush Limbaugh has said that it's just the common cold and a Democratic plot to bring down Trump.
That's fucked up.

Trump is a known germaphobe too.
They really don't give a shit about you do they?
Bernie and his socialised healthcare must be looking pretty good to you now.

This is the endgame of unrestricted Corporatism. Learn from our failure.

Nigger they invented this shit.

[BjornP]

This is the endgame of unrestricted Corporatism. Learn from our failure.

Nigger they invented this shit.

[Penner]

So I found out that I like to post things that seem more positive than the usual talking points. Like how this article is talking about possible new treatments for this disease:

One of the three drugs that China’s Ministry of Science and Technology has tapped as potential COVID-19 treatments to watch has notched its first Chinese OK — for the flu.

While there’s no proof yet that fapilavir, or favipiravir, is the cure that patients and physicians are yearning for, it stands out for a unique constellation of qualities. It’s been commercially available in Japan for several years (unlike Gilead’s experimental remdesivir) yet it’s new to China (unlike the malaria drug chloroquine phosphate). Perhaps more importantly, a domestic biotech — Zhejiang Hisun Pharma — owns the rights to manufacture and market the drug, preempting any concerns about patents.

At the same time, the Ministry of Science and Technology suggested that chloroquine phosphate, a 70-year-old drug, should be included in the standard regimen after showing promising results in trials across 10 hospitals.

Clinical guidelines for the treatment of respiratory illnesses resulting from the new coronavirus originating from Wuhan, now named SARS-CoV-2, are evolving quickly while development of a vaccine to prevent people from getting infected in the first place speeds ahead. On Tuesday Sanofi announced that its Pasteur unit will investigate a preclinical vaccine they made for SARS years ago, to see if it can protect against COVID-19.

BARDA is a collaborator for the effort, which will also see Sanofi deploying its recombinant DNA platform to produce the vaccine.

Like remdesivir, fapilavir attacks RNA viruses by inhibiting RdRp (RNA-dependent RNA polymerase). Fujifilm subsidiary Toyama Chemical first notched an approval in Japan in 2014 and christened it Avigan; in 2016 it licensed China API rights to Hisun — shortly afterward, Toyama also supplied the drug for an Ebola study that didn’t lead anywhere.

Combating the flu remained fapilavir’s raisons d’être, and officially it’s sanctioned for adults with novel or recurring strains of influenza when other treatments have failed. But Hisun’s Yue Li told PharmCube that the OK means physicians can prescribe the drug on a compassionate use basis.

https://endpts.com/china-approves-flu-d ... l-studies/

[BjornP]

Well, as much as I like to also (try and) argue against the doomsday squad, the invention of a vaccine unfortunately does not equal the needed production and distribution of it.