I Think Britain As A Nation Is Finished

[b]Johnson is trying his Best to finish us off.[/b]
Parliament only allowing 50 MP's in at a time, yet wants to put 30 school children into classrooms not even an eighth of the size, You can go to work but avoid travelling,
And some people think Trump is bad,

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senghenydd · M

Professor / Lord Winston has just stated on television the common cold is a corona virus well we've never found a vaccine for the common cold maybe a road map for treating the corona virus like a treatment would be practical.

Amyrakunejo · F

@senghenydd It's actually true; the common cold and influenza are of the corona virus archetype....

SW-User

@Amyrakunejo there are seven coronavirus that infect humans. Flu is not a coronavirus HCoV-229E and HCoV-OC43 account for about 25% of common cold infections. HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-HKU1 complete the human coronavirus species they are associated with quite serious upper respiratory tract infections.

Then the three known zootropic ones SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and now of course SARS-CoV-2. First came probably from a bat (bats have incredibly well developed immune systems so cause coronavirus to mutate to more harmful types but got to humans via a cevit cat MERS-CoV famously via camels. The latest is thought via pengolins.

Good news is that the genetic fingerprint being similar to the last two there's been a lot of work looking for possible vaccine in universities. But coronavirus is hard to crack. They are a hardy virus and this one is showing fantastic ability to rapidly replicate inside hosts and to mutate too. UK has over 20 strains already identified.

Maybe a combination of anti virals and an anti inflammatory as a treatment will be the best hope using existing drugs rather than a universal vaccine. I think we'll see a variety of vaccines some more effective with various demographics than others.

senghenydd · M

@SW-User Obviously I'm not a medical professional what you have said sounds hopeful I only hope this can and will be beaten and will keep my fingers crossed.