Lets face it: coronavirus will be cured. There's a market for a cure ...

[marble falls]

and there are universities, pharma-labratories galore to be first and best.

The question will be who gets to meter the cure: the government like it did for polio and eventually did for HIV, or will it be in the hands of someone like this:

[durablend]

1. We're doomed.

[marble falls]

3. Not if we all turn out Nov 3 and vote a straight Democratic ticket all the way down to dog catcher.

[Wounded Bear]

2. IIRC, Salk intentionally gave up his patent for his Polio vaccine...

Is there anybody today who would be so gracious?

[mr_lebowski]

4. Small detail ... there will be a vaccine ... which is different than a cure ...

Given we really don't have a cure for the common cold, I doubt we'll ever have one for COVID-19.

[marble falls]

6. That was true of Polio and HIV, too. We can agree that since these vacines ...

cases of the diseases have fallen quite dramatically. Isn't that indicative of some degree of "cure"? You don't get cured of small pox, you survive it. And get immunity.

[Coventina]

7. There is no vaccine for HIV, what are you talking about?

[marble falls]

8. What is that product from a big pharma lab they're selling on TV as a prescription ...

prevent HIV? I don't remember the name, but I am searching it.

Also I was meaning that HIV has seen individuals thought to be clear of any HIV, cured of HIV. Just clumsy typing on my part.

[mr_lebowski]

11. What you're describing as an eventual effect is called eradication ...

A cure is something that proactively fixes you when you're already sick and rids you of the sickness.

Antibiotics can cure bacterial infections for example.

Viruses OTOH get vaccines which hopefully eventually lead to eradication.

Very, very few viruses are 'cured' other than by the body itself. And even then a lot of them are just dormant.

I know I'm being pedantic, sorry but while there's likely to be a vaccine eventually, I think a cure is doubtful.

[Dream Girl]

5. No cure for HIV cancer MS Parkinson's and a host of other

Diseases. What are you ever talking about. There’s no cure for the common cold and flu. Viruses are nearly impossible to cure...

[RockRaven]

9. There's been a market for a "cure" for every cold virus for as long as we've known about them

but said cures do not exist at present. Likewise there's long been a market for a "universal" influenza vaccine, but it also does not exist.

I would not get too confident that the ultimate barrier is going to be cost/intellectual property. It may well be technical/logistical/scientific.

[redqueen]

10. There will be a vaccine, you mean. nt