Posted on 09/08/2020 7:26:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 was detected in China, researchers began analysing viral samples and posting the genetic codes online. Mutations — most of them single-letter alterations between viruses from different people — allowed researchers to track the spread by linking closely related viruses, and to estimate when SARS-CoV-2 started infecting humans.
Viruses that encode their genome in RNA, such as SARS-CoV-2, HIV and influenza, tend to pick up mutations quickly as they are copied inside their hosts, because enzymes that copy RNA are prone to making errors. After the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus began circulating in humans, for instance, it developed a kind of mutation called a deletion that might have slowed its spread4.
But sequencing data suggest that coronaviruses change more slowly than most other RNA viruses, probably because of a ‘proofreading’ enzyme that corrects potentially fatal copying mistakes. A typical SARS-CoV-2 virus accumulates only two single-letter mutations per month in its genome — a rate of change about half that of influenza and one-quarter that of HIV, says Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Other genome data have emphasized this stability — more than 90,000 isolates have been sequenced and made public... Two SARS-CoV-2 viruses collected from anywhere in the world differ by an average of just 10 RNA letters out of 29,903...
Many mutations will have no consequence for the virus’s ability to spread or cause disease, because they do not alter the shape of a protein, whereas those mutations that do change proteins are more likely to harm the virus than improve it (see ‘A catalogue of coronavirus mutations’). “It’s much easier to break something than it is to fix it,” says Hodcroft, who is part of Nextstrain, an effort to analyse SARS-CoV-2 genomes in real time.
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All viruses mutate. Most tend to mutate weaker not stronger.
Thank you, Dr. Fauci.
And that should work in the long run as long as China doesn't keep 'accidentally' keep re-releasing the original...
(Example: China and India have a border dispute and 7 weeks later cases skyrocket in India. That kind of crap - not saying that happened...)
I understand it's a possibility, or pure conjecture, on your part.
But think about it for a minute ...
One of the side-effects of covid19 is arterial cardio infection as well as lung scaring; with the latter affecting the ability to oxygenate the blood system.
One of the symptoms of covid is clinically known as dyspnea, a shortness of breath which can occur between 4 -10 days after infection.
It affects your ability to function, work, think, and can last for several months later; some athletes are noticing chronic shortness of breath after recovery.
The contentious border between China and India is at high altitudes, where in many cases the ability to breathe in high altitudes restricts even the ability to walk.
As I understand it, India uses natives in the area who have a biological ability to function in low oxygen environment.
Such a use of covid19 as a bio-warfare agent is not outside the realm of possibility.
Think of it as "Occam's Razor ".
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/india-added-million-covid-19-cases-week-200901091636897.html
India added half a million COVID-19 cases in one week: WHO
India reported the most new cases worldwide in the past week, pushing global tally by 1 percent, the UN agency says.
Right, that's possibly true .
Do you trust WHO ?.. I don't, not since the Wuhan outbreak.
Do you trust the UN ? .. I don't; I believe the agency has become partisan and anti-American .
Nevertheless, Yes, I can believe that covid is spreading there, but WHO statistical modeling, from the very beginning, was off 10 fold.
Also, while the evidence of covid explodes there, don't forget that a large number (I believe 90%)are asymptomatic, as well as 'false positives'.
That's exactly what the article says.
Reference bump!
Capers (raw) or processed have the highest levels of Quercetin - I always use capers in my salads and omelettes (best with Brie, bacon, capers and avocado ;-).
Pre-CV-19.
My Centrum Silver (Men 50+ , different than just Silver) has high levels of Zinc, and other goodies that I might miss in my diet Ds, Bs, etc..
Still here, so that’s a good thing, right?
Generally how’d you get the HCQ? Please do tell or hint?
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