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Something Jimmy Butler once told me. He said it is bad to be too good at table tennis.

Yes. It markedly reduced virus load in cultured human cells (in a dish) and is very effective in that experimental model (at first glance looks better than chloroquine, although the experiments are not easy to compare). So far there is no data in humans or animals in any coronavirus model. It...

Sadly, what Igor wrote is indeed possible.

This just came out in Science, one of the world's two most elite scientific journals. Authors are from several countries (London, NYC, Beijing, Davis CA, Hong King). It shows the biggest challenge controlling this virus. Basically the vast majority of spread is from people with few or no...

Sure. But if I see some more anti-science coming out of our government about this pandemic or propagation of weird conspiracy theories I'm going to point it out. I closed a similar thread at MyTT for the same reason.

Ivermectin, a drug that kills parasitic worms and head lice, blocks Covid-19 in cultured cells according to a group at Monash University in Australia. Hopefully a clinical trial is done soon.

Well the good news is, I suppose, that orders were eventually placed. The Associated Press reports that newly obtained federal purchasing contracts show "federal agencies largely waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other...

It is literally impossible to buy a mask anywhere in Houston. And there is evidence that masks are part of the reason things were less disastrous in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Regarding the various conspiracy theories that this thing was engineered or escaped from a lab: See here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 The authors are an international group of scientists from San Diego, New Orleans, Edinburgh, and Sydney Australia. Analysis of...

An article that appeared in Nature Medicine on March 17 entitled "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" by Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes & Robert F. Garry has used careful analyses of coronavirus genomes to convincingly disprove any conspiracy theories that...

What other sports are you good at? What do your friends mostly play?

Here is a short time line. 2007. GOP Senator Tom Coburn wites a 100-page report against the CDC because they stated that gun violence was a public health problem. From that point since, the GOP has been hostile to CDC. (That was not the case within the Bush administration). May 2011. GOP...

By the way, if you are looking to make your own mask, a decent material to use are vacuum cleaner bags, the kind that keep allergens in the bag.

As an official component of U.S. foreign policy, USAID operates subject to the guidance of the President, the Secretary of State, and the National Security Council. The president makes a budget request for The Department of State and the USAID. Congress then approves it. The PREDICT program...

I will copy and paste the lede. <article id="story" class="css-1vxca1d e1qksbhf0"><time class="css-129k401 e16638kd0" datetime="2019-10-25T05:00:28-04:00">Oct. 25, 2019</time> In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance...

Except for one thing Next Level. The article New York Times article I posted a link to was written on Oct. 25, 2019!!!!! This is before anyone knew that the SARS-CoV-2 virus existed. Before this crisis (although there is recent genetic evidence suggesting it had probably jumped into humans...

PREDICT was a program established initially in the US in which American scientists collaborated with foreign labs to identify viruses with the potential to become pandemics. The program trained scientists around the world to accomplish that, and had identified 160 new novel coronaviruses...

Igor. Stop posting shyte.

That is really promising. Here is the original for nerdier people. Very rigorously peer reviewed in a very good journal. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/ebiom/PIIS2352-3964(20)30118-3.pdf

This appeared on January 27. Turned out to be pretty accurate. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/27/coronavirus-donald-trump-made-us-less-prepared-joe-biden-column/4581710002/