Coronavirus - Overall
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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,
And the Yangtse is the river that we all support. -
@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