I read a lot about how we can’t go back to “normal” without a vaccine. That reasonably enough takes anything from many months to many years to develop much less manufacture and administer. So far so depressing. But there’s trials of drug treatments going on, admittedly some sounding more promising than others, that are apparently reporting initial data much quicker than that. So hypothetically one of those drugs, or a combination of, combined with better understanding over time of the virus, different protocols on ventilation etc, could result in much lower death rates and reduced hospital stays. Is it then plausible, if we have effective or even somewhat effective treatments, that we could go back to whatever decimated fragments remain of normal life even without a vaccine? Or have I misunderstood? Am I just looking for false hope? Not a doctor or a scientist, but puzzled by the focus on vaccination over treatments.
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