Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(09-07-2021, 04:23 PM)bengaloo Wrote: With the vaccines, monoclonal antibody treatments, and the various other drugs that have shown to be effective, then we can save more lives. The answer to all of this in my mind is "D. All of the above" 

By all means that we can save lives, we should. Whether its vaccines or treatments, or both. Remember, we are still talking about a virus with a very high survival rate. Going from 99.7 to 99.9% survival rate should be the common goal for us all. Obviously we cant sav everyone. People die from the common cold every year, but those folks are dying anyway whether they get it or not, sadly. I wish we could all live forever, but we cant... 

I am 100% for "all the above".

With regards to the survival rate, it's closer to 98%. The 99.7% is from taking total deaths relative to the US population, but survival rate would be confirmed cases that don't result in a death.

1.5% or so may not seem like a big difference, but we're talking 1 out of every 50 people who contracts it dies versus 1 out of every 300 or so. That number goes up when we adopt a laissez faire attitude towards it, though. 650k dead Americans is with us trying to stop it from spreading.