Rapid Fire Viral Cures Don’t Exist
In 1995, we lived in a different world. The movie Outbreak portrayed a monkey called Spike who was shipped to the USA full of the Motaba virus. The protagonist Sam Daniels must stop the virus and prevent an outbreak from happening across the entire world. In less than three hours, the main actor creates a cure and stops the destruction of humankind. If only we had this power in 2020, the world would be a different place. It feels a little too close to home, even though this movie came out in 1995. But we’ll let you in on a little secret about scientific facts. How could they possibly get enough plasma from single money to save thousands of people from a deadly virus? The virus also killed 100 percent of people in Africa, but there were survivors in America. It seems like the virus in the outbreak picked and chose its victims, and somehow, stopped killing as many people in America. Normally, it would take a team of virologists weeks or months to study the virus, learn about it, conduct tests, and create a cure that’s readily available to the public. Not hours. We’re sorry to ruin one of your favorite movies, but if we had this rapid-fire technology, virologists would’ve stopped COVID long before January 2020 (Stat News).