scottimus said:
Talked to my expert again about some of the discussions here.
Internet rumors/speculation is this virus came from the Level 4 Biolab in Wuhan. A doctor there published a paper identifying traits associated with Asians at much higher risk due to ACE2 cells that this virus targets. Terrific story, I know.
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lmao
The rumors are ridiculous
What do you think about this tweet?
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Mariet is an actual scientist
She is just retweeting numbers she has gotten from other people
The numbers aren't terrible probably off a bit, but not as bad as those people say the R0 is above 3
Incubation is shorter though more like 3 days
The R0 may end up below 2, but the way things have been handled in China so far, it will be slightly higher for a while
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They messed up and didn't allow the US CDC in
Now the US CDC is going in with the WHO
Should start to improve
Case numbers are too high to have enough supplies, personnel, facilities for now, but that problem is only in China
The source is >90% likelihood bats, based on the fact that the genome sequence fits, the organism fits, bats have similar sequences in their viruses, Wuhan is a major market for bats (it is a popular soup there) and the bats were abundant in the market
The rest of the stuff is just bs
The BL4 wasn't even active
China doesn't use most of the facilities they have they haven't had the expertise
Humor me and let's say this is engineered. Are scientist, such as yourself, able to identify the engineered RNA genomes easily?...the story was the scientist took Corona from bats and added the ACE2 aspect.
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Haha absolutely impossible you don't understand this virus is difficult to work with it is not possible
The technology doesn't exist
I told you, Julian works on these he has for like 40 years still couldn't do this
People saying this stuff just don't understand how this stuff works
I already told you, we know where this came from we have facts, no fiction
We aren't guessing
It is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was a single animal-human transfer
That is 99.9% certain
70% certain is enough for a court of law
Sorry scientists don't normally work in absolutes, but this is just silly
Oh I certainly don't know the tech. What about CRISPR editing? Any possibility there?
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Haha come on
This stuff is very complicated and is exactly what I do
The answer is that it is not possible I know all of the technologies, everything
Slightly different question. Let's say it hits here, Houston. How would you treat pneumonia at home without medical professionals?
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It is treated pretty much the same as flu
In most cases, they need major antivirals and respiratory support
Can't do that at home
The patient would likely die
I saw the clinical strategy today, let me see if I can find it
Sent me a pdf he just got from WHO. https://www.who.int/publications-detail/clinical-management-of-severe-acute-respiratory-infection-when-novel-coronavirus-(ncov)-infection-is-suspected
Thanks so much for sharing the PDF that is actually pretty helpful and interesting!
I like how your expert mentions antivirals. What antivirals? There are none proven to work for Coronavirus in USA that I know of.
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