News That'll Give You Hope We Can Beat This Thing
There may be a light at the end of the tunnel.
![News That'll Give You Hope We Can Beat This Thing](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/1/732831.jpg?v=2)
PSA: Be safe, stay home, and stay informed. -Ed
Reading the news right now feels like volunteering to take punches in the gut from Deyontay Wilder. But there's a lot of news that shows you that, actually, a bunch of very smart people are attacking this from every angle you can imagine, and making pretty inspiring progress.
For example:
![Dirt-cheap generic drugs could quash the pandemic. Some scientists say that, to buy time, we should look into drugs that strengthen the body (for exam](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/0/2/733202.jpg?v=2)
![A huge store of DNA data is being used to fight COVID. The UK Biobank has been tracking the health of half a million volunteers for a decade through b](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/4/733154.jpg?v=2)
![Even if we can't test people on a mass scale, sewage could give us answers. Over a dozen research groups are looking into searching for viral RNA in a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/3/733153.jpg?v=2)
![A Fujifilm subsidiary developed a super-fast coronavirus test. Current tests take four to six hours, but the one Fujifilm Wako Pure Chemical Corp rele](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/5/733145.jpg?v=2)
![COVID is being handled in Europe. The number of new cases is falling in Italy, Spain and Europe, and governments are looking at ways to ease the lockd](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/6/733156.jpg?v=2)
![Australian scientists are wrapping up clinical trials for COVID drugs. The trials are studying existing drugs to see if they can treat COVID, and they](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/5/733155.jpg?v=2)
![An Israeli placenta cell-based treatment saved six out of six critically ill patients. Four of them had improved respiratory function, and three are c](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/6/733146.jpg?v=2)
![The FDA granted emergency authorization for a decontamination process that'll let us re-use N95 masks. N95 are designed to be single-use, SO this is a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/1/733151.jpg?v=2)
![A smart mirror might make it super easy to wash your hands right. The Miaza Mirror detects your hands and walks you through the WHO'S handwashing prot](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/0/733150.jpg?v=2)
![70 coronavirus vaccines are in development and three are in clinical trials. Usually, developing a vaccine takes 10 to 15 years. Researchers are worki](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/8/733148.jpg?v=2)
![The WHO has enrolled hospitals in 90 countries in a clinical trial of four treatments. The WHO'S goal is for the Solidarity trial to be 80% faster t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/9/733149.jpg?v=2)
![Shipping containers could solve the ICU shortage. A team of over 100 architects and engineers, led by an MIT professor, is working on a method for tur](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/7/733147.jpg?v=2)