Posted on 02/24/2020 2:14:53 PM PST by Vermont Lt
John Kerry been there lately?
a boy can dream can’t he?
It can probably be tested by taking a bodily fluid sample and looking at it through an electron microscope. Plenty of color pics of the little bugger on the web. Not everyone has an electron scope though and it’s subject to human error/interpretation. Hence they need test kits for dummies. Why the first batch were defective? Who knows. Made in China? Procured by some RESIST person in fedgov? Incompetence on someone’s part?
Meanwhile Trump shut off travel of people coming here from China early this month and since 77,000+ cases out of 80,000 cases are in China, that seems to have given us time for the test kit glitch.
But this ain’t the flu. All we can do is keep track and prepare ourselves. So glad I moved from Ctrl FL to rural Ozarks.
Another reply was, “But nothing for the shit-covered streets and increasing homeless problem?”
I replied to him with;
“Nanc is probably hoping the virus will kill most of them off. Hell, she’ll probably have DiFi’s driver deliver some infected people personally”
People can walk around carrying and spreading this thing while testing negative for 7-28 days depending on the source.
What I want to know is, are these other countries using test kits or looking at bodily fluid samples through microscopes?
Our fedgov is all about contracts so are they just waiting to procure actual working test kits for dummies?
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After morphology, there is physiology. What media does it like, what metabolites does it produce? What temperatures does it like? Going deeper, there is the antigen signature. Use of labeled antibodies that latch onto a known antigen target can confirm a serotype.
The level of examination required for this corona virus requires breaking up the encapsulation and getting to the RNA inside. You have to amplify the tiny amount present with a polymerase chain reaction to make a huge number of identical copies. At that point you have the means to start sequencing the RNA an comparing the sequences to databases of known viruses or organisms. All of that finery was invented well after I graduated from UCSD in 1976. We did sequencing the hard way. Machines do that today.
It's not a simple process. Perhaps that's why CDC has ONE bench available and takes 6 hours to complete one test.
Ah ok. Beyond me. Electron microscope, I’ve heard of. So how are all these other countries testing while we can’t?
It’s kinda like when I’ve read comments from Europeans this winter that they’ve had influenza A or influenza B I gathered that our medical system has more of “relaxed” attitude about viruses. I’ve never had a swab for a virus even when I was very ill in bed with what I assumed was flu but called the doctor on the 8th day when fever still hadn’t broke and he called in an antibiotic. It worked, thank the Lord, but I never did find out which “strain” I had or even a confirmation it was flu.
last i saw was theyd be ready mid march have you heard otherwise..i hope so
great diagram, thanks!
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