but it did not make the case that the coronavirus has evolved a more resilient lipid bilayer because it was in bats.Here are a couple of things that caught my eye and raised my curiosity regarding the high temperature of inactivation seen in Covid 19.
“This article” link is dead.
Yes it is.
This Article. It's an article about the inhibitory effect of HCQ on the first Sars Covid virus.
If rates did not slow as much as expected in warm summer months, as you predicted it only tends to confirm that fomite transmission is not significant in transmission of Covid-19.
Rates slowed but not like we see with influenza. The role of fomites is one of many unanswered questions along with the question of oral transmission. I assumed that fomite transmission risk is significant because I assumed that this is a perfect biological weapon. I assumed that since I was expected to work around it all day long in an ER and assuming anything different could turn into a fatal error in judgement.
Thanks!
I was very curious about the whole business of using metal ionophores in cancer therapy. Zinc is interesting because it signals apoptosis in some cells but not in others so there might be some potential there for cancer therapy. CQ could get the zinc in the cells but it just turned out to act like a poison, so I think that whole line of attack has been shelved for now. The idea of using it for viruses seems promising. Some were wanting to use it on HIV and that did not pan out, not sure why. About a year ago, I was on FR with a couple of doctors, wastoute especially, who said the same thing as you, that HCQ was not the life-saver in the ER that we wanted it to be. He would always deflect the discussion with references to homeopathics and chelation therapy and other clinical failures, but finally when I got him to understand that there was a basis for this HCQ hypothesis, his response was zinc homeostasis. You will remember all the talk then about early intervention and zinc supplements etc. He got mad over people asking him to watch that MedCram video and quit the forum, so I cannot ask him anything now. It seems to me that there are lines of valuable inquiry here with this stuff. You?
Thank you for your thoughts about bats, that is and will continue to be an interesting read. Obviously this virus is not straight from the bats so it seems plausible that there could be deliberate manipulation but HOW did they do it? They would have to have a technology way more advanced than what we have. We had better get over there in the middle of the night and steal that from them! You can’t snip and substitute RNA like you can with DNA, and exDemMom suggested that they could have engineered a DNA sequence to produce the RNA they wanted but that would leave footprints all over it, never mind the technical sophistication required.
Anything you have will be interesting, and thanks again RC.