The only plausible way to achieve herd immunity is through mass vaccination, argues a Nature Biomedical Engineering editorial. The alternative — letting the virus spread naturally at an infection fatality rate of something around 0.5–1% — implies that millions would die before transmission slows down. Widespread testing, technology-aided contact tracing, case isolation and the quarantining of contacts will continue to be essential to sustainably suppress further outbreaks.
An effective contact tracing and case isolation is one of the surest ways to combat the pandemic.
The main solution to suppress COVID-19 pandemic is the development and utilization of effective vaccine for treating corona patients, otherwise the disease will remain prevailed worldwide like AIDS.
In order to suppress COVID -19 outbreak, we all have to take responsibilities by being careful with our various contacts and exercising adequate social distancing, then researchers should quickly find vaccine that will suppress the virus to its root.
Covid 19 has spread uniformly across the planet without distinction of hemispheres, borders, or climates. However, underdeveloped countries lack the means of communication to effectively detect and cope with the pandemic. The catastrophic economic situation forces indefinite quarantines to prevent sanitary collapse. The scarcity of massive screening tests has led health personnel, the general population and their rulers to ignorance of the true epidemiological magnitude of SARS-CoV-2. In addition to the predominant signs and symptoms of infection (temperature above 37.5ºC, dry cough, fatigue, myalgia, sore throat), a simple and inexpensive complementary protocol is proposed as a screening test for oligosymptomatic patients. Suspicious cases can be detected by a frequent symptom (anosmia) and an altered physiological parameter: oxygen saturation. Using a smell test, using coffee and vinegar can detect anosmia. In addition, a pulse oximeter can diagnose hypoxemia with saturation below 90%. More studies are needed to standardize and validate the postulated screening tests. Possible measures to activate the community immune system to reduce the impact of the coronavirus and preventive measures for health personnel can be identified.
According to a new computer model, if 80%+ of the population wore masks, sooner rather than later, we could make a huge impact on the spread of COVID. http://dek.ai/masks4all/
I guess positive impact on reduction i believe.
Minimizing the exposure to viral loads capable of causing infections, strengthening our immune systems, and providing airflow designs that don't support the lateral movement of droplets will assist in the development of herd immunity. We will never be able to completely avoid the exposure to a virus, they are with us forever and are part of our nature.
There is need for a new normal; screening people before allowing access to public places using new MID IR Technology to detect infected super-spreaders before they are allowed access to public places. A couple minutes to obtain a health safety clearance code on their cell phone can protect the public, while suitable masks can help to minimize the viral load exposure being spread in the air.
Airflow from top to bottom, with proper filtration and partial exhaust are likely to become the new normal.
Dr. Harvey Riche of Yale Medical School published a paper about treatment options. If you isolate the elderly in nursing homes and those with underlying conditions maintain social distancing conditions you could achieve herd immunity by letting the healthy and those under 60 be exposed and then be treated as necessary. Many will be asymptomatic and not require therapy. Not many will progress very far into the disease process. And in the near future there will monoclonal antibody therapy. So as the economy opens up it is really a matter of who is right. Dr. Riche or Dr. Fauci. If you want 100% certainty and not rely on statstical probabilty then you wait for Randomised clinical trials to be complete before you decide. But if you believe Dr. Riche manuscript then you will have a choice to make. I fall on the side of statistical probability and that herd immunity will be the result, with the vaccine being the fail safe for the elderly and those with underlying conditions. Serological testing will determine when herd immunity has been achieved.
Washing of hands regularly and use of face mask. Then everybody must be conscious of the environment as we wait for the real drug that can eleiminate or eradicate COVID-19 virus.
Siddha herbal extract will give solution to COVID 19. I request researchers concentrate on siddha
The whole thing has been a total planning disaster, criminal really. China showed them the way, but instead the white countries just ignored them in their superior fool's paradise and now they are paying a very high price.
The answer is simple. It's like Sars, ebola, smallpox or anything else. You hit it, you hit it hard, and once it is eliminated you completely close your borders to the fools who could not stop it. It is really hard to understand how Europe and the USA managed to bungle this so thoroughly and closed their borders so late.
Waiting round for a nonexistent vaccine is just pie on the sky, you should never ever base policy on a long shot like that but only on real data..
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Since COVID-19 vaccines are available, hence mass vaccination is the only way to suppress COVID-19 outbreak.