[themagician]

The prudent step would be putting all resources against a vaccine and taking some risks by skipping to late stage trials for anything that looks promising. Sort of like what happened with Ebola.

Quarantines just buy you a little extra time. If there is no vaccine, the inevitable always arrives.

[grecy]

> taking some risks by skipping to late stage trials for anything that looks promising. Sort of like what happened with Ebola.

I was in Africa when all that went down.

The huge difference here is that the West didn't really care about giving a not-completely-tested drug to Africans in the middle of nowhere.

I don't believe they'll accept that for their own important citizens.

[themagician]

Oh, I 100% agree. Too politically risky.

[mattrp]

Agreed... I remember during Ebola feeling almost as if we simply gave up trying to stamp every little possibility and instead focused on making sure the right patients made it through the system to get the right care. At the same time it’s a little hard to excuse the lack of measurements or even the ability to determine if the virus is present.

[s1artibartfast]

Are you volunteering to take the vaccine?