Post #479970

There have been two research groups which have found nasal treatments which prevent many (all?) respiratory diseases at the expense of increased (low-level) inflammation. I keep thinking that this is such an amazingly useful discovery that it really ought to be fast-tracked as hard as Operation Warp speed fast-tracked vaccines. The USA clearly isn't going to do it though; maybe some other rich country could pick it up? I also fantasize about everybody in the world taking a dose which protects everybody for two weeks. We could wipe out so many respiratory diseases! (I know we couldn't get *everybody* to do it, but if we could even get 80%, that would be amazing. (I remember I was SO MAD when influenza just disappeared in 2020, to discover that we humans had the power to get rid of influenza all along. And that we apparently killed off one strain of influenza B completely...)