Most Americans are confused as the where we are going in this pandemic. With denial and false information coming from the current administration the real story has become clouded. I would like to try and paint a possible scenario.

The ideal outcome is an effective vaccine. We are unsure if any vaccine will ever give long lasting immunity and historically the great majority of vaccines fail testing. Compare to an AIDS vaccine – still none. If a successful vaccine (fully passes phase 3 trials and immunity lasts) is found it will still take many months to produce, distribute and administer.

Until we are safely immunized what should a day in our life look like. You will follow social distancing guidelines, wear a mask whenever in public near other people etc. Soon, when you wake up in the morning you will perform an accurate saliva test for COVID-19 and take your temperature. If you are normal you will proceed with your day following all present national guidelines for safety. If you are positive you will go to a local COVID-19 clinic and confirm testing, get a monoclonal antibody shot and possibly another drug to prevent the disease. You will then be interviewed for tracking and then go into quarantine.

If you get sick you will be treated aggressively with the then current methods including Remdesivir, convalescent plasma, oxygen and other therapies that have been proven to decrease mortality. Less people will become infected, die or become disabled.

The most important thing is that you need to understand this is a pandemic and extremely dangerous, to return to a reasonable new normal we all must make sacrifices and share in the pain. Working together, supporting each other without prejudice will enable us to constrain the virus. Only then can we begin to work, play, go to school and function in a near normal capacity. Trump’s failure to respond to the pandemic in a timely fashion has cost us unnecessary pain and deaths and lost time, let us get to work.

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