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It’s ya boi Huck. As you have probably noticed, it’s been a while since I last posted on this blog. I was summoned by the High Council to visit my home planet in response to an emergency that arose. That is about all I can say at the moment. I will not disclose any more information regarding the visit, as it is top secret. Anyway, all seems to be somewhat well now, so I have returned to your home planet to continue my mission in observing all of you and the world you, and I guess myself, live in. In a previous post I spoke about the coronavirus and how the actions, or the failure of a single government to act upon certain events can have a tremendous impact upon the entire world. Since then, the problems surrounding the coronavirus have only multiplied. Italy, one of many countries to be affected by the epidemic, reported a 45% single-day rise in infections. In today’s blog post I wanna speak more about the new issues that have risen since, and most importantly, the solutions and research that have been proposed to solve the epidemic. Since my last post, the amount of cases of COVID-19 have only risen globally and just earlier this week the CDC, or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that the coronavirus is expected to spread throughout the country, and that “It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more of a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness”. I’m straight up quoting the words of the director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. What makes the disease even trickier to pin down is the fact that, according to some reports even though there are the normal traits that characterize the disease such as pneumonia, fever, runny nose, even diarrhea, there has been amounting evidence that the disease may be asymptomatic. For non-science people who don’t want to deal with opening a new tab to google the definition, that just basically means that it can also exist in people without producing or showing any symptoms. To address these asymptomatic symptoms Dr. Yuen from the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital says that the new aim is to control the epidemic by isolating patients, “…Tracing and quarantining contacts as early as possible, educating the public on both food and personal hygiene, and ensuring health care workers comply with infection control”. Meanwhile, there’s research going on behind the scenes to tackle the issue. This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that a vaccine does not seem to be a likely solution to COVID-19. Normally vaccine development takes decades, but a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 would likely take 12 to 18 months. This is obviously comparatively fast, but is still not rapid enough, considering that the coronavirus seems to affect more people even by the hour. Right now it seems that the more viable option for combatting the epidemic are drugs as they can get produced soon. I sure hope that’s the case.
Huck.
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