While the vulnerable populations are isolated, they should have let healthy people go back to work. Keep the distancing and other restrictions in place. Let the healthy who won't be symptomatic get the virus and get over it. All we've done is kick the can. The overwhelming majority aren't symptomatic or have limited impact from the virus. Once restrictions start rolling back May 1st, people you'll start to see the 2nd wave. Healthy people will end up giving to vulnerable people or those that care for vulnerable people. The only hope in limiting the death impact, is treatment. You're not going to avoid the transmission of the virus. This has been grossly mishandled.
A cool paper came out yesterday that shows a lot of promise. A study done with over 1000 patients. The result?
The HCQ-AZ combination, when started immediately after diagnosis, is a safe and efficient treatment for COVID-19, with a mortality rate of 0.5% in older patients. It avoids worsening and clears virus persistence and contagiosity in most cases.
Everyone should use the summer to get their health in order. Lose weight, exercise and get sun light. You have to build your body to fight the next iteration of this and other virus's. The data is clear that the overwhelming, as in 80%+ of patients who have serious issues, suffer from other co-morbidities. Which you do have an impact on with your eating and exercise habits. The combo of doing that with medication should make this an after thought going forward.
