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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome (Complete sequence of the genome and the proteins it codes for)
NYTimes ^ | April 3, 2020 | Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer

Posted on 04/04/2020 11:59:22 PM PDT by aquila48

A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977.

In January, scientists deciphered a piece of very bad news: the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The sample came from a 41-year-old man who worked at the seafood market in Wuhan where the first cluster of cases appeared.

Researchers are now racing to make sense of this viral recipe, which could inspire drugs, vaccines and other tools to fight the ongoing pandemic.

A String of RNA

Viruses must hijack living cells to replicate and spread. When the coronavirus finds a suitable cell, it injects a strand of RNA that contains the entire coronavirus genome.

The genome of the new coronavirus is less than 30,000 “letters” long. (The human genome is over 3 billion.) Scientists have identified genes for as many as 29 proteins, which carry out a range of jobs from making copies of the coronavirus to suppressing the body’s immune responses.

The first sequence of RNA letters reads:

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genome
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Great article for those who want to get into the innards of this virus. A bit technical.
1 posted on 04/04/2020 11:59:22 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: PA Engineer

Ping


2 posted on 04/05/2020 12:02:16 AM PDT by datura
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To: aquila48

I’m going to read it. Because whatever the virus is, yes. It’s bad news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States#CDC_reported_U.S._totals

2020-04-03

Cases 273,808

Deaths 7,007

2020-04-04

Cases 307,036

Deaths 8,352


3 posted on 04/05/2020 12:16:51 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: aquila48

There is no way in Hell that this thing is zoonotic.

No effing way.

Weapon. After reading the source article, how can there be any other conclusion???


4 posted on 04/05/2020 12:18:48 AM PDT by datura
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To: aquila48

Latest numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology

United States

Cases 311,616

Deaths 8,489

Recoveries 14,943


5 posted on 04/05/2020 12:18:55 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Ping


6 posted on 04/05/2020 12:20:41 AM PDT by datura
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To: familyop
Check out these stats... Worldmeter

A little perspective helps ease the pain and the nonsense.

7 posted on 04/05/2020 12:27:35 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Better Statistics: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus//

World Deaths per million: 8.3 or .00083%

COVID-19 Loves Smokers especially with COPD. It loves the Elderly over 65 in the nursing homes. It loves immune compromised folks.

So if you are over 65, have COPD from Smoking and are taking anti-rejection drugs, you have a high percentage of dying from it unless you ASK FOR Hydroxychloroquine and an anti-viral if you test positive and are expressing symptoms.

Whoops, now the death rate plummets.

8 posted on 04/05/2020 12:39:16 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: aquila48

Bookmark


9 posted on 04/05/2020 12:42:18 AM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: jerod; CptnObvious

The ChiCom Virus loves young fat boys. It’s taken many others like this one.

Michigan state lawmaker dies of suspected coronavirus infection
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3831852/posts


10 posted on 04/05/2020 12:47:31 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: datura

Thank you very much. I should be asleep, however I found this article useful for what we are looking at with virus infection. BTTT and BKMRK.


11 posted on 04/05/2020 12:49:37 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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Whoops, now the death rate plummets.

Very wrong. It loves glycated hemoglobin. Check your waistline and HbA1c.

46% of Americans will fail the Kraft test today. Young, middle aged and old.

The old go first and then people like yourself start with a cough and then end up on their stomach with tubes in your throat and arms, wearing a diaper.

Just stop it with the bullsh*t.
12 posted on 04/05/2020 12:56:01 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: jerod

Did you bother to read the source article? No, obviously not.

This virus has far too many mission specific proteins to have “evolved” from a bat in a wet market, and some unknown ones.

In 2015, the PLA second in command published a paper regarding bioweapons, and that the search was on for an ethnic specific bioweapon to overcome the hegemony of the US. The world didn’t give it much thought back then.

After SARS, the PLA took a huge interest in coronavirus- they saw its potential, and began intensive research into these. Notice that no one talks about the origin of MERS very often, if ever? I haven’t seen the genome data for it, but under an electron microscope it looks very similar to WuFlu.


13 posted on 04/05/2020 12:56:22 AM PDT by datura
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To: PA Engineer

Sorry to wake you - but I hoped you would find use for this.


14 posted on 04/05/2020 12:57:08 AM PDT by datura
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To: jerod; CptnObvious

People with diabetes are most vulnerable, and many obese people are unaware of their blood sugar problems, especially the young ones.


15 posted on 04/05/2020 12:57:28 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop
Yes it does. Just like our fat boy posters who say it is nothing.

COVID-19 Disease: ORF8 and Surface Glycoprotein Inhibit Heme Metabolism by Binding to Porphyrin

It is novel and not going anywhere. The entire "asymptomatic population penetration" argument is based on....no data.
16 posted on 04/05/2020 1:00:20 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: familyop

My neighbors daughter was just put into the ICU with the virus, she is diabetic, along with other comorbidity issues, I don’t have much hope for her. Only prayers.

Her sister passed last month, and the mom is going to go off the deep end having lost both of her adult children in less than 30 days.


17 posted on 04/05/2020 1:02:21 AM PDT by datura
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To: datura

I was heading to bed. We were looking into some heady stuff. Explains a great deal about this virus. This was a bioweapon that escaped. No doubt in my mind.


18 posted on 04/05/2020 1:03:03 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: datura

It makes me very sad to see that. I’m very sorry and will hope for a miracle for her. I’m somewhat obese and older but have been working hard and eating less to lose the weight for a long time. Another, younger family member has been doing the same. For us, it’s only a matter of getting enough sleep or otherwise really pushing ourselves to raise our metabolism.


19 posted on 04/05/2020 1:09:26 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: PA Engineer

Thank you for the link and information.


20 posted on 04/05/2020 1:10:38 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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