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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7973341" data-attributes="member: 6803337">A vaccine is one form of exposure, in tightly controlled conditions that give the person's immune system the best chance to come out on top.*The earliest smallpox innoculations involved bringing over somebody who had it, popping a poc, and rubbing the crud that oozed out on somebody else's skin.  Icky and less controlled but it worked.As a temporary stopgap, we may have to expose otherwise-healthy persons to small quantities of the virus (via a pin-scratch?) and send them home with two weeks' worth of general immuno-boosting stuff (vitamin & mineral pills, instructions to get exercise and eat lots of fresh fruit / veggies, the things that make infecting you a tough proposition for every other virus).  It's scary barely-controlled but it is what we can do while we work on much better.I'd be really happy if authorities could keep an updated list: these conditions make Coronavirus weak and you strong against it.  Right now the list would almost all have to be marked 'hypothesis' and 'studies under way' but eventually we can mark items 'Proven Effective' ... if such work IS indeed underway.* I used to work in a hospital.  I had to get a bunch of booster shots for my childhood vaccinations.  After two bad experiences, I scheduled the other shots on Fridays before my weekends off.  So I could be sick and achy at home, not at work.  I always did get on top of it after a day or two.  Campbell's Soups probably loved me, too.</blockquote>

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