Coronavirus

Hope this Hello finds you and yours well. The invisible virus that has infected millions continues to dominate the news as it affects home life, schools, work, and economy. Will there ever be a end in sight?

Each day there is a new revelation, but no vaccine or cure. Just when doctors, researchers and medical personnel find some correlation in patients, such as the age and medical history of most who died, a new question arises to baffle.

In this world filled with technology when you think you can look up any illness and can be solved maybe on Webmd or similar, this virus changes almost daily escaping the grasp of the medical field to move to the next victim.

Some compare it to the virus that infected and killed countless millions around the world during and after World War I, known as the Spanish flu. A cure or vaccine was never found. In the end, the virus wore itself out.

One virus that has almost been eradicated in the United States is the polio virus. Dr. Jonas Salk was actually working on a vaccine to cure or prevent the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 when he isolated three live viruses, cultivated them and then killed them with formaldehyde so they could not reproduce.

After extensive testing, he found that the vaccine he had developed would prevent polio. Mass inoculations of this vaccine was given to school children in the 1950’s. Today, there are very few cases and mainly from people returning from third world countries where polio is still cripples many.

We must all take care to take care of ourselves as we wait for a vaccine that could be discovered by accident just as the polio vaccine was discovered.