Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

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Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher

CDC: You're going to need to wear masks again.
Unvaxxed people: We don't want to wear masks.
CDC: Then get vaccinated.
Unvaxxed people: Then no masks?
CDC: LOL no, you'll still need to wear masks.

[rockthechuck]

According to this chart the 7 day rolling average for deaths from Covid in the United States has stayed pretty constant over the last month.

[WuDrWu]

Death isn't the only bad outcome to getting Covid.

[SubGod22]

Death isn't the only bad outcome to getting Covid.

You're right. Cold would be up there as well.

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Death isn't the only bad outcome to getting Covid.

****ing eh! You people are learning!

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Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher

CDC: You're going to need to wear masks again.
Unvaxxed people: We don't want to wear masks.
CDC: Then get vaccinated.
Unvaxxed people: Then no masks?
CDC: LOL no, you'll still need to wear masks.

That's not how the conversation goes. It's more like this:

CDC: You're going to need to wear masks again.
Unvaxxed people: **** you. Muh rights.
CDC: Then get vaccinated.
Unvaxxed people: **** you. Muh rights.
CDC: But if you won't get vaccinated, the pandemic will last 3 times as long with much more needless death and suffering.
Unvaxxed people: **** you. Muh rights.

That's pretty much how it goes. And this is how I imagine the expression on their face looks:

[wufan]

That's not how the conversation goes. It's more like this:

CDC: You're going to need to wear masks again.
Unvaxxed people: **** you. Muh rights.
CDC: Then get vaccinated.
Unvaxxed people: **** you. Muh rights.
CDC: But if you won't get vaccinated, the pandemic will last 3 times as long with much more needless death and suffering.

Unvaxxed people: **** you. Muh rights.

That's pretty much how it goes. And this is how I imagine the expression on their face looks:

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Polio vaccines started over 60 years ago. It still exists. Better learn to live with this.

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Hopefully you don’t get karma’ed.

You mean slapped w/ a retard stick? I'd welcome it. I've been pleading to the gods for bestowed ignorance my entire adult life. I'm cursed with unnatural, inappropriate gifts. It's like being forced to walk knee deep in mud every day of your life while interacting with a society who thinks they're peddling a bicycle.

I want to be oblivious to it all. Beer koozies, country music, fart jokes, steak dinners, and football.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

I call 'em as I see 'em sport. They're everywhere!

I guess if anyone would know the traits of a tard it would be you...

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Jeff Passan @JeffPassan
The Nationals and Phillies game has been postponed because of Washington’s covid outbreak, sources tell ESPN. Multiple players and coaches have tested positive today after Trea Turner did yesterday. Size of outbreak remains to be seen, but may wind up as biggest in MLB this year.

Washington is one of the teams to have crossed the 85% vaccination threshold for Tier 1 personnel

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Jeff Passan @JeffPassan
The Nationals and Phillies game has been postponed because of Washington’s covid outbreak, sources tell ESPN. Multiple players and coaches have tested positive today after Trea Turner did yesterday. Size of outbreak remains to be seen, but may wind up as biggest in MLB this year.

Washington is one of the teams to have crossed the 85% vaccination threshold for Tier 1 personnel

Jon Heyman @JonHeyman

Nats have 12 positives including many who were vaccinated

[wufan]

Jon Heyman @JonHeyman

Nats have 12 positives including many who were vaccinated

Those selfish bastards!

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Bill Melugin @BillFOXLA

NEW: Over 25% of new COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County between July 1-16 were amongst fully vaccinated people, as “breakthrough cases” continue to increase, according to the health department

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02039-y

How the coronavirus infects cells — and why Delta is so dangerous

Scientists are unpicking the life cycle of SARS-CoV-2 and how the virus uses tricks to evade detection.

The coronavirus sports a luxurious sugar coat. “It’s striking,” thought Rommie Amaro, staring at her computer simulation of one of the trademark spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2, which stick out from the virus’s surface. It was swathed in sugar molecules, known as glycans.

“When you see it with all the glycans, it’s almost unrecognizable,” says Amaro, a computational biophysical chemist at the University of California, San Diego.

Many viruses have glycans covering their outer proteins, camouflaging them from the human immune system like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But last year, Amaro’s laboratory group and collaborators created the most detailed visualization yet of this coat, based on structural and genetic data and rendered atom-by-atom by a supercomputer. On 22 March 2020, she posted the simulation to Twitter. Within an hour, one researcher asked in a comment: what was the naked, uncoated loop sticking out of the top of the protein?

Amaro had no idea. But ten minutes later, structural biologist Jason McLellan at the University of Texas at Austin chimed in: the uncoated loop was a receptor binding domain (RBD), one of three sections of the spike that bind to receptors on human cells (see ‘A hidden spike’).

What has emerged from 19 months of work, backed by decades of coronavirus research, is a blow-by-blow account of how SARS-CoV-2 invades human cells (see ‘Life cycle of the pandemic coronavirus’). Scientists have discovered key adaptations that help the virus to grab on to human cells with surprising strength and then hide itself once inside. Later, as it leaves cells, SARS-CoV-2 executes a crucial processing step to prepare its particles for infecting even more human cells. These are some of the tools that have enabled the virus to spread so quickly and claim millions of lives. “That’s why it’s so difficult to control,” says Wendy Barclay, a virologist at Imperial College London.

The virus’s speedy entry using TMPRSS2 explains why the malaria drug chloroquine didn’t work in clinical trials as a COVID-19 treatment, despite early promising studies in the lab¹⁰. Those turned out to have used cells that rely exclusively on cathepsins for endosomal entry. “When the virus transmits and replicates in the human airway, it doesn’t use endosomes, so chloroquine, which is an endosomal disrupting drug, is not effective in real life,” says Barclay.

Absolutely fascinating article on the ins and outs of the insidious, alien mutant. What a natural (unnatural?) masterpiece.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Trump would already be working on a booster to kick this things ass. Biden meanwhile is sittin on the couch eating puddin.