The COVID-19 pandemic

[MidTowner]

This is a rather interesting article about the progress of the disease and what we can do about it:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavir...9337092b56

Well, that's encouraging that the author posits that what he calls "the hammer" (our current social distancing and isolation) is needed for a matter of weeks, not months.

It's a good point too that, even if the most ambitious estimates put a vaccine at a year or more away, one or more effective treatments could be identified any day now.