Coronavirus 2019-nCov: Political Thread

[wufan]

I mentioned this months ago. Australia practically eradicated the flu with their unified mask wearing. And before you get conspiratorial, flu tests are administered frequently in hospitals and are reliable and quick.

Get off Facebook pin.

I don’t think the concern was how the flu is doing. I think it’s that the scientists are contributing Corona spread to lack of mask wearing, but flu eradication to NOT wearing masks.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

He's right on the money with this. MSM has been stoking the fear in America since the beginning to try and make the Trump administration look bad. The truth hurts. It's not all on the federal government. Read the constitution with respect to the role of federal government vs. states rights and responsibilities.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/scott-atlas-federal-government-media-coronavirus-misinformation

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Despite having the most awful record of any governor, d!ckhead Cuomo patting himself on the back again.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-santas-going-to-be-very-good-to-me-worked-hard-this-year

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday mused that Santa will be "very good" to him this Christmas because of how hard he worked to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

The eyebrow-raising comments came during Cuomo’s daily press briefing. The Democratic governor was urging New Yorkers to save lives by staying vigilant and following basic health guidelines going into the holidays.

[ShockerFever]

Despite having the most awful record of any governor, d!ckhead Cuomo patting himself on the back again.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-santas-going-to-be-very-good-to-me-worked-hard-this-year

It says a lot about this country that people continually elect these buffoons into office, term after term.

[pinstripers]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/study-finds-84-fewer-hospitalizations-for-patients-treated-with-controversial-drug-hydroxychloroquine

[C0|dB|00ded]

Despite having the most awful record of any governor, d!ckhead Cuomo patting himself on the back again.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-santas-going-to-be-very-good-to-me-worked-hard-this-year

One governor was blindsided by the equivalent of a biological attack with no time to prepare. The only choice was to react. Another governor was given months to prepare and enjoyed cutting edge medicines and therapies specifically designed for said threat. Care to change your statement?

[C0|dB|00ded]

https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/21/looming-questions-new-variant-coronavirus/

The looming questions scientists need to answer about the new variant of the coronavirus

A variant of the coronavirus that emerged in the United Kingdom has forced London to shut down, led some countries to ban travel to and from the U.K., and set off a global manhunt to find out where else this version has arrived.

So what comes next?

Whenever a potentially significant viral variant emerges, experts want to study its effects on three key factors: how well it spreads, the disease it causes, and whether it can evade the protection people have against the pathogen, either because they’ve been infected already or are vaccinated against it.

“We shouldn’t just trust our priors that would be like, ‘No, the virus wouldn’t evolve this immune evasion,’” Andersen told STAT Monday. The constellation of changes this variant has “is really unusual,” he said.

Coronaviruses evolve more slowly than viruses like flu, but they do pick up mutations as they spread. SARS-CoV-2 has been adding one or two changes a month to its RNA genome since it emerged late last year in China, and different versions of the virus have been continuously circulating throughout the course of the pandemic.

But this variant, referred to as B.1.1.7 or VUI-202012/01, showed up with at least 17 mutations, according to one genetic analysis. Some are in the stretch of the genome with the instructions for the virus’ spike protein, which binds to human cells and enables the virus to infect them.

Because the vast majority of the world remains susceptible to the virus, there hasn’t been much evolutionary pressure on the virus to adapt, though that will change as greater proportions of the population get vaccinated. But in this case, experts think B.1.1.7 didn’t evolve through the normal pattern of slowly incorporating mutations into its genome as it copied itself as it spread.

Instead, they say it’s possible that an immunocompromised person who had a rare, chronic case of Covid-19 — whose long-lasting infection would have let the virus replicate for weeks or longer, building up mutations rapidly — could be the source of the new variant that has since spread to others.

British researchers and public officials have said B.1.1.7 is more transmissible than other versions of the coronavirus — with estimates ranging from 50% to 70% more infectious.

“We now have high confidence that this variant does have a transmission advantage over other virus variants that are currently in the U.K.,” Peter Horby, an infectious disease expert at the University of Oxford, said Monday, upgrading his assessment from last week of “moderate” confidence. The variant is continuing to overtake other forms of SARS-2 in the country, scientists said.

British researchers on Monday also raised another point of concern about the new variant: it might be able to infect children at higher rates than other versions.

One of the saving graces of the pandemic is that SARS-2 has not been infecting children at the rates of adults (and has generally not made them nearly as sick). A hypothesis for this is that kids don’t have as many ACE2 receptors on their cells compared to adults.

But in the U.K., epidemiologists are finding that more infections among children are caused by the new variant compared to other versions. They’re trying to determine the significance of the pattern, but it’s possible that if the variant is better at latching onto ACE2 than other strains, it doesn’t need as many of the receptors to establish an infection.

“If the virus is having an easier time of binding and entering cells, then that would put children on a more level playing field,” Barclay said. “It sort of overcomes one of those barriers that the virus was meeting before.”

STAT always has the best 'Rona articles. Lots more to read than what I quoted. Scary stuff.

[wufan]

One governor was blindsided by the equivalent of a biological attack with no time to prepare. The only choice was to react. Another governor was given months to prepare and enjoyed cutting edge medicines and therapies specifically designed for said threat. Care to change your statement?

Did you notice the Y-Axis discrepancy?

[ShockerFever]

Did you notice the Y-Axis discrepancy?

Stop. The only patterns that matter are the up and down crayon doodles.

[C0|dB|00ded]

Did you notice the Y-Axis discrepancy?

Yep.

Aaaaaaand... nope.

Are the 2 reflexive "likes" from the Trump-bots really worth your self-respect.

[ShockerFever]

Yep.

Aaaaaaand... nope.

Are the 2 reflexive "likes" from the Trump-bots really worth your self-respect.

Like envy?

Weird.

[wufan]

Yep.

Aaaaaaand... nope.

Are the 2 reflexive "likes" from the Trump-bots really worth your self-respect.

Nope doesn’t work in this context.

[Shockm]

The looming questions scientists need to answer about the new variant of the coronavirus

Scary stuff.

So we are all going to continue to die?

[C0|dB|00ded]

So we are all going to continue to die?

Oh certainly not. But perhaps now a few more than previously thought along w/ a higher share of children. I hope this isn't the case. An increase in infectiousness can be thought of as more deadly in the context of public consumption.

[C0|dB|00ded]

Nope doesn’t work in this context.

But of course it does. You swung and missed... again.