[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Michael Moroney]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

>On 2020-03-16, Arne Vajh? <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 3/16/2020 12:46 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 3/16/20 8:43 AM, Arne Vajh? wrote:
>>>> What you can expect:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised 
>>> 
>>> I heard a report on the news over here (being from our typical
>>> media must be taken with a very large grain of salt) that UK
>>> officials want everyone to get at least a mild case of the
>>> virus so that they develop natural antibodies to prevent a
>>> recurrence.

>There are reports circulating within the UK that this is exactly
>what they want to do.

The Chinese have been trying plasma transfusions from people who have recovered
from this virus into others to see if any immunity can be transferred.

>> This is a type of flu virus. It is at least as contagious as
>> ordinary flu virus.
>>

>The normal flu virus does at least have a vaccine available
>which can attenuate this spread.

This isn't the same as the ordinary flu (rhinovirus).
Even with it, they have to "guess" which strain to make the vaccine for,
and often they guess wrong.