> At this point, such hopes look unrealistic. After months of intense research, an effective treatment for COVID-19 still does not exist. A vaccine is, even if we get lucky, many months away from deployment.<p>I've been saying this for months.<p>Mother Nature won in the US, as it has in every previous pandemic.<p>We can choose how partial lockdown is sequenced, but we need to get to herd immunity sooner than later.<p>We've never had a vaccine or cure for the cold (a coronavirus), and there's no guarantee we'll find one for covid-19.