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It simply couldn't be we're just letting everyone be constantly reinfected, could it?

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    2 years ago

    The virus has evolved to make a lot of treatments like monoclonal lineffective. We've got antivirals like paxlovid that still work, but that's it.

    The world has collectively decided to let one of the most infectous viruses we've ever seen spread uncontrolled. 8 billion potential hosts, several times a year, means constant and rapid evolution.

    We're fucked until we lower the reproduction rate, and for that we need multiple prevention strategies, like masks, widespread vaccinations of everyone possible, staying home until testing negative, air filtration... but wsj is almost certainly against all of them.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Ya, paxlo works and will continue to work, but there's a big caveat you probably haven't heard of in that paxlo isn't usually prescribed to old people because the damage to kidneys and liver may be worse than covid damage.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        2 years ago

        It also doesn’t interact well with some common and necessary medications.