I mention this because a vaccine is only useful for known viral code. nCoV will have a family of hundreds of variants in no time. Boosting ones built in adaptive defenses will protect against all of the mutations.
I mention this because a vaccine is only useful for known viral code. nCoV will have a family of hundreds of variants in no time. Boosting ones built in adaptive defenses will protect against all of the mutations.
NPIs -- handwashing, avoiding close contact with people sneezing like mad, not touching your face -- are the only things that actually work right now that everyone can and should be doing.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.0006...
failed to show any effect on wintertime supplementation of D (using pre-registered criteria)
http://www.vitaminedelft.org/files/art/ling2009.pdf "no benefit"
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/fo/c4fo0... "did not lower incidence of influenza"
https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
"Vitamin D supplementation was safe and it protected against acute respiratory tract infection overall. Patients who were very vitamin D deficient and those not receiving bolus doses experienced the most benefit."
Not going to lie, I'm very very glad I quit smoking before this coronavirus business. I was down to just a vape by June last year and I quit that in December.
Okay, but for those who cant, underlining conditions etc, what do you suggest ?
This is the world we live in, and that kind of build up you're talking about that would fight off all these strains of virus' would take generations of active measures.
In the meantime, I don't think it's a bad idea to develop vaccines and shots which will aid our immune system.
Our body uses the memory DNA (or memory cells - Not a doctor) after getting chicken-pox so that we (usually) don't get it again. But the COVID strains vary so much it's a little pie-in-the sky right now to imagine naturally fighting all of them.
Our best defense is our ability to maintain good hygiene in this generation. We know all about how these things spread, and that should be the primary focus for the every day to day person.
Some things to watch or look at
CoV Map: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
CoV Rates: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Mutations: https://nextstrain.org/ncov
MedCram: https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDCRAMvideos/videos
The mutations are probably the most interesting. I would be curious what company is going to cover all of them in a vaccine.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191115190327.h...