Ritz, Covid-19 is just as novel to the human po
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Posted On: 09/29/2020 3:56:16 PM
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Ritz,
Covid-19 is just as novel to the human population as the Spanish influenza was, with just as high a pathogenicity, if left untreated.
The difference know is that we have recognized the threat of this novel pathogen and taken steps to slow its rate of spread while we work on therapeutics and vaccines.
Additionally, supportive medicine, in most of the world, is far advanced over 1918, so that patients are given a chance to recover (oxygen, steroids, ventilators, ECMO.
We are of course paying a significant economic price for our efforts to slow the spread. The social support structures (unemployment benefits, Medicare/Medicaid, social security, government grants through PPP and direct assistance to large industries) did not exist in 1918, so there was no way to have people not work and not starve.
If the volume of patients overwhelms the health care system, mortality will skyrocket and we will see something closer to 1918 flu.
Let’s hope the federal government supports those unable to safely work and brings leronlimab and other effective therapeutics to market.
As Patterson noted, leronlimab can turn Covid into a regular flu. That is my hope for all of us.
Covid-19 is just as novel to the human population as the Spanish influenza was, with just as high a pathogenicity, if left untreated.
The difference know is that we have recognized the threat of this novel pathogen and taken steps to slow its rate of spread while we work on therapeutics and vaccines.
Additionally, supportive medicine, in most of the world, is far advanced over 1918, so that patients are given a chance to recover (oxygen, steroids, ventilators, ECMO.
We are of course paying a significant economic price for our efforts to slow the spread. The social support structures (unemployment benefits, Medicare/Medicaid, social security, government grants through PPP and direct assistance to large industries) did not exist in 1918, so there was no way to have people not work and not starve.
If the volume of patients overwhelms the health care system, mortality will skyrocket and we will see something closer to 1918 flu.
Let’s hope the federal government supports those unable to safely work and brings leronlimab and other effective therapeutics to market.
As Patterson noted, leronlimab can turn Covid into a regular flu. That is my hope for all of us.
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