03-20-2020, 05:46 PM
(03-20-2020, 02:05 PM)rickhd Wrote: I had what they think was the H1N1 flu in January 2019. I had the flu shot. I was sick for a month. I never felt that bad in my life. Took about 3 weeks for the fever to break. I was literally sweating buckets. I don't want to go through something like that again. Any flu type virus is no fun.
Just to clarify, this is not a "flu type virus"...it's a corona virus, which is similar to the flu in a few ways...but it is not an influenza virus and it is extremely unlikely there will be a vaccine for it in the fall, best case won't see a vaccine until January 2021, and likely not till summer 2021.
Your description of the situations in Italy and Iran seem to imply you don't think we would see a similar situation here, I don't think that is true either, even if patient zero spread the virus, Italy, as we have had, also had many many other patients introduce the virus, it would have spread out of control regardless as it has in almost all other western countries. It might be a little worse in Italy because of the circumstances, but we will have the same result unless we respond differently, as we do appear to be doing...whether it is enough, I don't think anyone knows.