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Knowing the structure of the SAR2-Cov2/ACE2 interaction is a nice advance. But it doesn't indicate how thermostable the virus will be outside of a human host. In fact, it has nothing to do with that at all. Protein structures are great to have. We were actually in a collaboration to do some...

I hope so, but the effect will also require extreme public health efforts to coincide with temperature increases. Again, and it has to be emphasized repeatedly, it is not known exactly WHY the first SARS outbreak subsided with onset of summer, only that it did.

USA track and field and USA swimming don't want to attend games this year. They account for lots of medals and their voice counts heavily here.

Yes. What also bothers me is science denial. Especially as a political strategy.

Well, yes, except that it is the IOC. And that does not guarantee an outcome in the best interests of the athletes or the host nation.

Ping, please be careful and stay healthy! I know things are very bad where you live.

Not to mention a long border with Iran, closed now, but.......

Igor, your comment is the exact opposite of what the experts in that article conclude.

Konrad is also enlightened because he obeys The Rules. Know for a fact that if you play him, the Gods will see that he gets plentry of nets and edges. Ba'al has spoken.

Independent modeling in the US reached the same grim conclusion.

They (Italy) were forced into that though because their healthcare system was totally overwhelmed. They simply dont have enough ICUs or ventilators.That's what we have to try to avoid. I'm watching Austealua closely. Like the US they are reportedly short on test kits. So total cases there...

We will see how the heat theory works here soon. Houston temps will approach 90 next week and probably will stay there. The "controlled infection" strategy strikes me as fundamentally fascist.

Holy crap zeio! That would terrify me! Of course, in the US we are doing the same thing, only it's not policy (as far as anyone knows or has leaked). It is simply incompetence. So to be honest, I am already at an 8.5 on a 1 to 10 feaked out scale.

Correction as more has come out. It appears that the stock sales by Dianne Feinstein, Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe, and Georgia Republican David Perdue were probably not a result of what would technically be insider trading. But the others, especially Burr and Loefler are in deep crap. OK...

I also do not believe the "herd immunity" theory about the cruise ship in Japan. OK, time for a rant, because I am burning with anger. The real scandal about the senators selling stocks goes deeper than mere insider trading (which of course gets people a year or so in prison in the US if...

Exponential, or power law, some other function, later we'll know. What is important is that it grows fast. For now, do what you have to to protect yourself. If the Japanese government cancels games after finding a way to blame foreigners, at least in the end they do the right thing. Quite...

Kuba Hajto is one of the Enlightened Ones.

Rule 20. The correct number of blades to own is n+1 where n is the number you own now. You must not shirk your responsibilities to the TT gods. Ba'al has spoken.

I should add that if the acidic granule theory for chloroquine is correct it suggests some other drugs that might also be effective in Covud-19. Der Echte mentioned quercetin. It actualky inhibits the enzyme (H+-ATPase) that makes those granules acidic. I think you would need a whopping big...

It is not known for sure how it works in viral infections. One theory, in basic terms, is that the virus needs intact function of acidic granules such as lysosomes inside the cells they infect to hijack them into making more virus. Quinine and chloroquine are known to enter the acidic granules...