Corona Virus Daily Thread #46 COVID-19

many | 4-18-2020 | many

[RaceBannon]

Corona Virus Daily Thread #45 COVID-19

[RummyChick]

bat lady and wang LF

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31996413

Discovery of Bat Coronaviruses through Surveillance and Probe Capture-Based Next-Generation Sequencing.

[miserare]

Don’t do that again without warning.

But, I get your point.

[RummyChick]

you might find this interesting. Maybe you recognize the names.

Crameri(Australian Bat Man with no current internet presence)
Shi ZL (China Bat Lady now missing)
Linfa Wang( Singapore Bat Man)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20335495

Identification of key amino acid residues required for horseshoe bat angiotensin-I converting enzyme 2 to function as a receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

Abstract
Angiotensin-I converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV). A previous study indicated that ACE2 from a horseshoe bat, the host of a highly related SARS-like coronavirus, could not function as a receptor for SARS-CoV. Here, we demonstrate that a 3 aa change from SHE (aa 40-42) to FYQ was sufficient to convert the bat ACE2 into a fully functional receptor for SARS-CoV. We further demonstrate that an ACE2 molecule from a fruit bat, which contains the FYQ motif, was able to support SARS-CoV infection, indicating a potentially much wider host range for SARS-CoV-related viruses among different bat populations.

[Black Agnes]

Neat, thanks!

[Jane Long]

Tucker exposed this racist, on his show, the other night.

He said she is under *review*....whatever THAT means, for her very racist tweets.

Has she been fired, yet?

[RummyChick]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022175907003602

Determination and application of immunodominant regions of SARS coronavirus spike and nucleocapsid proteins recognized by sera from different animal species

MengYuaVickyStevensaJody D.BerrybGaryCrameriaJenniferMcEachernaChangchunTucZhengliShidGuodongLiangeHanaWeingartlbJaneCardosafBryan T.EatonaLin-FaWanga

Meng Yu
CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, CFIA, Winnipeg, Canada
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

[Black Agnes]

The australia/bat connection is creepy. That’s a focal location for nipah virus.

coronavirus is a pansy virus in comparison.

[RummyChick]

Linfa Wang is still alive and commenting

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/blame-covid-19-on-human-activity-not-bats-expert

“The Hendra virus, the Nipah virus and the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus were passed to humans through horses, pigs and civets respectively, he said.”

[Black Agnes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus_infection

[chris37]

Bats seem to be the deadliest animal on the planet at this point.

[Fury]

“COVID-19 Lethality Not Much Different Than Flu, Says New Study”

- see https://reason.com/2020/04/17/covid-19-lethality-not-much-different-than-flu-says-new-study/#comments

Study being referenced is “COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California”

- see https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf

[Black Agnes]

There’s a reason they’re treif.

[ETCM]

“The sad thing looking back,” said Kay Johnson, the widow of Charles Johnson, “is that we didn’t know.”

On March 6th, you didn't know...

[RummyChick]

I am too darn tired to parse through this long tweet storm comparison to the show Lost to figure out what is real and what is part of Lost...but saw this. I think this is who John roberts has been referencing in his questions during the Pressers..but the photo on the left looks like the Bat Lady to me
Bat lady:


https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1248398363604561925



Michael L Bonic @BonicMichael · Apr 9 7/Chinese Netizens believe is Huang Yan Ling. She's in the photo, her name's circled in red. laowhy86 relates how the Wuhan Virology Institute needed researchers to study bat virology. Huang Yan Ling was a female graduate student in the P4 virus lab of the Institute of Virology.

[Black Agnes]

https://twitter.com/HarryChenPhD1/status/1251380400385077248

[grey_whiskers]

Computer hacker reverse engineers the virus on a live stream in late March and defends Trump, and shits on Hillary while he does it

Using biopython, apparently. :-D

[RummyChick]

Here is the video of the guy who understands a little more of what has happened in China..that shows the pic and the job posting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU

[Black Agnes]

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/with_replies

Good historical perspective in that account. Very interesting articles/references when you scroll down.

What’s old is new again.

[grey_whiskers]

So don't be surprised if you see one sitting at your local airport. If you do, know things are much closer to the edge than we know.

"Vlad? Hi, It's Donald. Wanna nuke China off the face of the Earth with me? Cool. Do you want to take the sub pens or the ICBMs?"

[grey_whiskers]

I wonder if these researchers were reacting to knowledge that Bolton and the President would be removing the pandemic office from the White House and cutting the CDC budget related to cross-species transmission and pandemics by 80% in 2018.

No, they were reacting to the fact that you suck Panda.

Troll.