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Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

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Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

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> coronavirus not contained by late May

??

It cannot be "contained" any more. Consensus is it's pandemic, it's not hard to see.

Do we not understand how this works? What do reporters or the public think can happen?

Even if there is a vaccination, which in reality will be years off, we can't even vaccinate measles across the world and certainly not by 'May'.

We can't even supply gloves and face masks at the levels we need.

Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

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> coronavirus not contained by late May ?? It cannot be "contained" any more. Consensus is it's pandemic, it's not hard to see. Do we not understand how this works? What do reporters or the public think can happen? Even if there is a vaccination, which in reality will be years off, we can't even vaccinate measles across the world and certainly not by 'May'. We can't even supply gloves and face masks at the levels we…

https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-firs...

Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

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> coronavirus not contained by late May ?? It cannot be "contained" any more. Consensus is it's pandemic, it's not hard to see. Do we not understand how this works? What do reporters or the public think can happen? Even if there is a vaccination, which in reality will be years off, we can't even vaccinate measles across the world and certainly not by 'May'. We can't even supply gloves and face masks at the levels we…

https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-firs...

https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1232344683348668416?s=2...

Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

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> coronavirus not contained by late May ?? It cannot be "contained" any more. Consensus is it's pandemic, it's not hard to see. Do we not understand how this works? What do reporters or the public think can happen? Even if there is a vaccination, which in reality will be years off, we can't even vaccinate measles across the world and certainly not by 'May'. We can't even supply gloves and face masks at the levels we…

https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-firs...

I saw a quote recently saying something like claiming they have a surgeon making claims about an amazing new surgical procedure because they have an idea and a scalpel working.

No proof that it works, doesn't have terrible side effects, or actually does anything useful on humans.

Re: Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

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> coronavirus not contained by late May ?? It cannot be "contained" any more. Consensus is it's pandemic, it's not hard to see. Do we not understand how this works? What do reporters or the public think can happen? Even if there is a vaccination, which in reality will be years off, we can't even vaccinate measles across the world and certainly not by 'May'. We can't even supply gloves and face masks at the levels we…

IIRC the SARS outbreak in 2003 was "contained" within that year.
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