Coronavirus: COVID-19

Anteater · 05-01-2020, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I figured that you should actually read it since it addresses recombination, plus I was wondering how you would change the methodology so that I can email the researchers and take credit for your insight.

They could start by actually identifying an animal coronavirus that is sufficiently similar to have served as the direct progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.

**Frownland** · 05-01-2020, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

They could start by actually identifying an animal coronavirus that is sufficiently similar to have served as the direct progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.

It'd be even more useful if they discovered a cure too lol

Anything else?

Anteater · 05-01-2020, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

It'd be even more useful if they discovered a cure too lol

Anything else?

The FDA just approved the emergency use of remdesivir to treat the virus apparently. We're saved!11

OccultHawk · 05-01-2020, 03:48 PM

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That doesn't mean she should stop actively thinking about the situation but to go right to "I had it and it wasn't that bad so everybody should just get it over with" is so frustrating to me and Dana and that video was a big part of it.

Why aren’t people scared of getting it again and it being worse the second time?

I feel like I’m the only one in the country waiting on a definitive answer about the can you get it again question.

I know this is a false equivalency but if I get stung by a bee I don’t think damn I’m glad that’s over with. I look around to see if there are any more bees.

**Frownland** · 05-01-2020, 03:48 PM

I meant about the study's methodology in particular.

~~jwb~~ · 05-01-2020, 03:48 PM

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Full-length genome sequences were obtained from five patients at an early stage of the outbreak. The sequences are almost identical and share 79.6% sequence identity to SARS-CoV. Furthermore, we show that 2019-nCoV is 96% identical at the whole-genome level to a bat coronavirus. Pairwise protein sequence analysis of seven conserved non-structural proteins domains show that this virus belongs to the species of SARSr-CoV. In addition, 2019-nCoV virus isolated from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of a critically ill patient could be neutralized by sera from several patients. Notably, we confirmed that 2019-nCoV uses the same cell entry receptor—angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2)—as SARS-CoV.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2012-7

~~jwb~~ · 05-01-2020, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

The FDA just approved the emergency use of remdesivir to treat the virus apparently. We're saved!11

The fact that the FDA approved it is proof it's not a real cure.

Anteater · 05-01-2020, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

The fact that the FDA approved it is proof it's not a real cure.

But they approved Viagra.

**Exo** · 05-01-2020, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Why aren’t people scared of getting it again and it being worse the second time?

I feel like I’m the only one in the country waiting on a definitive answer about the can you get it again question.

I know this is a false equivalency but if I get stung by a bee I don’t think damn I’m glad that’s over with. I look around to see if there are any more bees.

I think they determined that you can't get it right away again. The reports from South Korea of reinfections were false positives from dead cells of the virus. They are also determining through animal trials that you most likely can't get the virus again for close to a year but that hasn't been fully determined yet. That's the theory still.

OccultHawk · 05-01-2020, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

I think they determined that you can't get it right away again. The reports from South Korea of reinfections were false positives from dead cells of the virus. They are also determining through animal trials that you most likely can't get the virus again for close to a year but that hasn't been fully determined yet. That's the theory still.

I read that, too. Not the animal trial thing though but yeah. I guess it’s hard to prove anything beyond a shadow of a doubt and this story is so huge any kind of outlier is going to get a lot of press.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I meant about the study's methodology in particular. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x