Belarus was relatively ok until 2 days ago if they have been successful with contact tracing. But the problem now is the number has doubled over past 2 days which makes it very difficult to continue contact tracing. Time for a new approach.
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Belarus was relatively ok until 2 days ago if they have been successful with contact tracing. But the problem now is the number has doubled over past 2 days which makes it very difficult to continue contact tracing. Time for a new approach.
Jura The idiot
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I now got emotional, at the point when personnel in corridors is cheering the patient who's survived in an intensive care unit, in this report (toward its end, sorry I won't watch it again to post the timing):
Quickie
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I wouldn't be too quick to draw a conclusion from just 160 genome samples in the analysis.
The outbreak in Wuhan and east Asia mainly comes from Variant B. Variant A, which predates Variant B, were found in China, East Asia, Europe, Australia with the latter 3 having the bigger proportion compared to China. This surprised the analysts in the study (I am presuming) because China should have the larger proportion if it's the source of the Variant A that have further mutated to the Variant B.
A much bigger genome samples encompassing all the major geographic areas would give a better analysis.
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solarz
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Jura The idiot
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Yesterday at 7:46 PM I didn't have any "160 genome samples" in mind;
what I had in mind was my belief of a new virus first causing trouble where it originated, and later causing trouble elsewhere:
'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar' according to Dr. Freud
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Quickie
Colonel
You are serious? A cigar is a cigar until you realize someone is playing a prank on you!
As I have implied, there is no concrete proof yet Variant A originated in China. No patient zero, and they can't find the animal hosting the variant A in China.
The closest animal hosted virus the Chinese can get is the bat corona virus which yielded a sequence similarity of 96.2% with the Covid-9 virus, which in genomic terms should be night and day? Remember, our closest relative, the chimp, even has a better similarity to human genome of 96 percent, notwithstanding RNA genome mutate more easily but here we are talking about a time-frame of a number of years or decades, not millions of years.
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Nah they would never risk another outbreak.
Also, testing on thousands of medical workers would be larger dataset.
Virus testing isn't the only thing needed. IQ testing also.