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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-16, Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Interesting, thanks. I wasn't aware of that.

>>> 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.

Yes I know, although I admit the above is unclear if read in that light.

What I was trying to say was that there is a vaccine that can be used
to slow down the transmission of the normal flu virus through the
population.

You are correct however that there is still some guessing involved.

Simon.

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