Covid-19 outbreak is fearful, but we’ll fight back yet! — Dr David Quek | Malay Mail

Sunday, 05 Apr 2020 07:29 PM MYT

Let’s be prepared for the long haul of challenges still to unfold. Let’s pause for a much needed review and reorientation of our life’s purposes. I fear for our frontliners knowing full well that no matter how careful they are, even if they are fully protected , some of them would become infected. And some, as has happened to some of my colleagues elsewhere, have died. But when it happens to someone close, you feel this shock in your bones...

Here, unfortunately, we’re failing too often, 3 per cent or 10 per cent is just too high a case fatality rate for most acute ailments these days. We’re usually better than this, at curing our patients. But, this is an unprecedented novel virus that penetrates deep into and destroys our lungs, our breathing capacities, and inflame our hearts, too

We have tried new antiviral and immune therapies that may work. We are studying these in earnest, to see how best to use them and when. We’re using plasma from ‘cured’ patients as a therapeutic serum. But, we will not let this pandemic wipe out humanity! We are not at doomsday Apocalypse by a long shot. We’re not at End Times. Revelation has not come yet. We will not be the ‘living dead’.

So please join this passive but powerful army of everyone of starving this virus to its natural demise. When this coronavirus can’t find a host, it cannot replicate, it cannot spread, it dies. That’s how viruses thrive. So we must contain and kill it. That is our collective strategy that must work! Everyone of us must play our part, no ifs, no buts!

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