Coronavirus - Overall
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Big disinfection campaigns in China, and everyone firmly encouraged to wear masks in public.
Government has responded pretty quickly to this, and the message is prevalent in wealthy cities at least. Chinese healthcare system is not at the level of advanced nations, and some regions are under-administrated, but they can respond quickly and forcefully if motivated.
This doesn't look to me to be particularly worrisome. I read something recently about it having the same glycoprotein binding domains as SARS, which made that infection difficult to transfer. I would need to double check that, and review the recent literature, to say anything with confidence though.
Would be great if people stopped eating things like bats though!
The Chinese Government is building a new hospital just to deal with this issue. It'll be completed on Feb 3.
Fuck they get shit done when they want to.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
The Chinese Government is building a new hospital just to deal with this issue. It'll be completed on Feb 3.
Fuck they get shit done when they want to.
This.
Visiting some of the sights/touristy-shit in China, it's not so much just the thing itself which is awesome, but thinking... “some fluffybunny thought this up, AND had the will/power/mandate/manpower to actually DO it. WTF?”
Great Wall & Terracotta Warriors especially, but more recently Three Gorges Dam. -
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Snowy If it's any consolation, I'm developing the first real high throughput screening assay for viral protease and neuraminidase inhibitors (e.g. tamiflu). See you in 15 years with a product. (less than 10% chance)
to quote Dave Warner
SPEAK ENGLISH
seriously, what does that mean for a layman?
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Snowy If it's any consolation, I'm developing the first real high throughput screening assay for viral protease and neuraminidase inhibitors (e.g. tamiflu). See you in 15 years with a product. (less than 10% chance)
to quote Dave Warner
SPEAK ENGLISH
seriously, what does that mean for a layman?
I believe that @Tim is working on an attempt to produce a mass produced solution for the avoidance of certain types of viruses.
How did I do? Both of you.
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Got two mates in China currently. One I think is in Zhenjiang, she reckons the Chinese government are massively underplaying it..while the western media is massively overplaying it. The other is in Shenzhen where there have been some cases, haven't heard back from him yet, he's picked a hell of a time to introduce his Australian bride to his family.
Flying to NZ tomorrow. Should be a paranoia filled flight if we have someone coughing through it.
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Next time anyone wonders why science research should be better funded think of this
Amazing
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Flying to NZ tomorrow. Should be a paranoia filled flight if we have someone coughing through it.
I read on BBC and NYT sites today that carriers are passing on the virus with zero symptoms. People could have it and have no idea, certainly for several days at least.
And if anybody can explain this twitter thread to me, I’d appreciate it...
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A small bit of a levity with a timely Terry Jones pivot. (R.I.P.)
We love the Yangtse, Yangtse-Kiang,
Flowing from Yushu down to Ching-Kiang,
Passing through Chung King, Wuhan and Hoo-Kow
Three thousand miles, but it gets there somehow.
Oh! Szechuan's the province and Shanghai is the port,
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@Salacious-Crumb Ignore stuff like that, and read my posts above instead.
This is a good thread on that tweet:
The authors of that paper emphasize the high degree of uncertainty and have already downgraded their estimate to an R0 of 2.5
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I have developed a system that can do very high throughput screening of different enzymes for lysis (cleaving) of biopolymers like proteins and carbohydrates.
This could be used to find new enzymes to process biomaterials. Alternatively, it could be used with known enzymes to screen compounds (drug candidates) that block those enzymes.
Viruses cleave cell surface and intracellular biopolymers to enter the cells and trigger viral reproduction. Tamiflu blocks viral lysis of sialic acid groups from a glycoprotein. This is the kind of critical step in infection of respiratory system cells that coronaviruses also do.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Loving staff in Duty free wearing masks. Very reassuring
It is common knowledge in medical circles that surgical masks cease to be an effective barrier after a few minutes