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Then either you don't seem to be very good at predicting the future, or you're a very pessimistic person, or possibly both.

As just one example, #20 is already being done for COVID: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/new-test-detects-cor...

And another disease: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2835-2

I could go on, but I think I've made my point.

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For something to be widely available in 10 years, the R&D has to be mostly done right about today. I think it's likely that we'll see a CRISPR-like technique in the experimental stages for one or two diseases in humans in the next decade, but it's basically impossible that we'll have many such therapies approved in that time. We're in the "kind of works in mice" stage of research. That's very far from approved in humans.

> I could go on, but I think I've made my point.

Is COVID "minimised" yet? Quite the opposite. So it looks like the prediction of "disease can be minimised" is an absurd one.

Pfizer would like to have a word with you.

I look forward to their call, but realistically, I am not holding my breath today. Maybe next year.

Is COVID "minimised" yet? (1) Would Pfizer say so?

1) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54935700

Clinical trials take so long that emergencies like covid could be the few diseases wiped in the next decade.

The research is bearing fruit, seeing that on the ground is a different matter.

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