Some reasons to be optimistic
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WaPo ran an op-ed by Joseph Allen — a Harvard prof specializing in “exposure assessment science”.
Prof. Allen offers up 6 “positive developments to remind us that there is hope in this crisis”.
Here’s Prof Allen’s list:
1. Therapeutic treatments
in addition to what we already have for most sick patients, more targeted therapeutic treatments will arrive — probably before vaccines.
Scientists have now engineered synthetic clones of coronavirus antibodies — called monoclonal antibodies — and they are showing to be effective both therapeutically and to prevent infection.
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