[mrsmith]

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#Breaking 800 workers at Korea chipmaker Hynix quarantined. This is the world #2 memory chipmaker

Oh no!

[mrsmith]

Hynix says: “not affecting its factory operations”.
Maybe not a big deal for the company.
Frightening for Korea though.

[blueplum]

geesh. Can you imagine? all those workers told to go home and separate themselves from their families.

a tidbit about the virus:

So how does comparing the genomes of the viruses from these samples tell us when the infection started? Viral genomes can mutate at a pretty quick rate. Therefore, if the Wuhan coronavirus had been circulating for a long before the first case was reported on December 8th, the 24 genomes from the given samples would differ a lot more from each other than they currently do. And the knowledge of rates of viral evolution extends even further! Scientists estimate that the original coronavirus that all the others descended from appeared no earlier than October 30th and no later than November 29th.
https://www.crigenetics.com/blog/wuhan-coronavirus-genetics/