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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 3487091, member: 2524"] As you should be nervous. Most important is to prevent infection. Wear a mask whenever you go outside, wash hands frequently, disinfect surfaces you touch, use hand sanitizer after touching anything outside. In a perfect world, as soon as you have symptoms, you would get a cocktail of antiviral drugs such as remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, Kaletra, and favipiravir. The reason this is desirable is that you are in a race between the virus and your immune system. It takes 2-3 weeks for you to develop antibodies against the virus, and you won't survive without them. The virus takes 3 weeks to kill you if you start with a small dose, but 2 weeks if you start with a large dose. The antivirals slow down its growth so that it takes 4+ weeks to kill you, and that gives your immune system time to win the race. Few people die if they get anti-infective drugs early. With a vaccine, your immune system is working right away, and so you win. Even a very imperfect vaccine that confers limited immunity would save a lot of lives. They should be testing formalin-inactivated virus (the way Salk made the first polio vaccine, [URL="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2537623/"]Inactivation of poliovirus by formaldehyde[/URL]) in healthcare workers right now. But the main thing is to avoid infection. Doctors are not treating this properly yet, partly due to lack of drugs and partly due to regulatory restrictions / lack of FDA approvals, so going to the hospital right now may hurt your chances of survival because you may be picking up additional virus from all the other patients. Avoid infection as long as you can and your chances of surviving this outbreak will be higher. Use the time to improve your health, eat well, get morning sun and exercise. [/QUOTE]

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