Hope you are right about the vaccine Austral. CSL can produce it. The immediate problem is that the cfr currently assumes excellent medical treatment. However this thing is possibly going to overwhelm our medical facilities and on a bad note, it’s infecting hospital staff.
‘The question then becomes one of sustaining our infrastructure until a vaccine or time and natural immunity puts an end to the pandemic.
I would expect triage facilities will be needed soon if we haven’t stopped it at the border. Also cancellation of gatherings, etc. You will know it’s serious when the carefully crafted daily ministerial briefings start being published. My wife and I, as old farts and thousands like us, would be lucky to survive this thing without expert medical care which is not going to be available.
I will be talking to a public health acquaintance later this week and if there is good news I’ll gladly share it.