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SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by tochatihu, Jan 26, 2020.

  1. hill

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    Wuhan PR video ... dealing with a possibility sick driver that's belligerent, just in case anyone thinks they don't take things seriously;


    ok - It's not as bad as watching the Keystone Cops comedy strips, but yeah, they need a whole lot more practice - blockade van day late/dollar short.
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  2. Mark57

    Mark57 2021 Tesla Model 3 LR AWD

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    I thought the butterfly net was a nice touch.
     
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    is that bug spray?
     
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    In a couple of days (WHO sitreps 65 and 66) I desperately hope to call Italy 'past the peak'. Cannot yet. This must not be over interpreted because it marks an approximate halfway point of cumulative case totals.

    But it has meaning because severe public-contact lock downs take time to have their desired effects. Lock down to turn down times can be known from Hubei Province and South Korea but they are set up quite differently than Western countries.

    Lock down to turn down times (to the extent they can be extended to other countries etc.) are very important for response planning. Cannot be calculated until turn down occurs.
     
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    ny not looking good
     
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    ma: 1,160 cases, up from 780

    11 deaths, up fro 9

    8% hospitalized, down from 10

    14,000 tested, up from 9,000
     
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    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    Per Johns Hopkins and 'three day doubling,' it looks like the USA will exceed Chinese reported cases by Friday.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    3PriusMike Prius owner since 2000, Tesla M3 2018

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    Yes I do.

    Just to be accurate...the Pentium (1993) had one core (with 2 in order pipelines. )
    The Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III had one core with 3 out-of-order pipelines.
    The Pentium IV added hyperthreading: two threads on one core
    Pentium D (a variant of Pentium IV) was the first Intel dual core CPU chip in 2005.
    Then they switched to using the "Core" brand name.

    Mike[/QUOTE]
     
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    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    Which works best against a virus:
    • soap
    • detergent
    • no difference
    My understanding is an RNA virus has a lipid coating. There are claims that a detergent is better at breaking a lipid apart than soap. There are also claims that soap is less effective in hard water and can form a scum. But I'm more interested in the chemistry between the virus lipid shell and either soap or detergent.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    president of harvard and wife test positive
     
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    With no further action on my part, the client on my computer finally got a unit assigned last night. First sign was one of the cats curled up on the laptop.

    I figured out how to look up the project numbers, it's apparently working on an old, low-numbered cancer project. Not that it really matters, I'm just trusting that the network is optimizing things properly.
     
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    JimboPalmer Tsar of all the Rushers

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    I look at it this way, the worst that could happen is that you will inadvertently help to cure a type of cancer. It is hard to find a downside to that.

    I see the researchers adding COVID-19 projects, but we still don't know just how much work the volunteers could do if the bottlenecks were removed.
     
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    Looking at tracking websites yesterday, it looked to me that it will be a very close race between USA and Italy in overtaking China in case counts.

    And we could well have a tie for that, i.e. China a may fall directly to 3rd place in a single step, never getting a chance to momentarily hold 2nd place.

    Separately, will Italy get a temporary chance for 1st place before the USA inevitably over takes it? (Our daily case increase is double theirs, so we will quickly surpass them.) Or will Italy still remain #2 even as it passes China, i.e. will USA leap directly from #3 to #1 without a pause at #2?
     
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    It could get worse than that. The greatly increased computing capacity could speed cures to multiple types of cancer.
     
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    Mark57 2021 Tesla Model 3 LR AWD

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    FYI, I just got several work units on the Corona virus project, #14335. It appears the Folding at Home bottlenecks are opening up and the Covid-19 research is available to work on. I've been getting work units non-stop for 36 hours now.


    #14335 - SARS-CoV-2 RBD domain in complex with human neutralizing S230 antibody Fab fragment (PDBs: 6nb8, 2ghv) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.028]
     
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  20. Mark57

    Mark57 2021 Tesla Model 3 LR AWD

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    It's nice to feel like I'm contributing "something" at least. They're really cranking them out now. I'm working on F@H projects work unit #13832 and the higher priority #14533.

    (#13832-This is a SARS2-nCoV-2 protein. It's called the 3CL-PRO, or the 3CL-like proteinase. It turns out that the virus actually generates all its proteins as one giant "polyprotein" and then chops the protein up to let them be free. Lots of viruses do this.

    #14533-Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease - potential drug target.These are high-priority **CPU** projects to simulate the main protease of the COVID-19 )