POTUS from the White House Rose Garden:
Reading a speech: Cases in declining… all parts of the country are getting better. We continue to morn with the loved ones of the families. Solidarity with those who have the virus. We want to get back, we want to get back to work soon…
10,000 ventilators distributed. WOW! We ahve ventilators like…
Thanks for posting, anon. Interdashing… my gold coin order is "processing" after a week and no communication…
Not helping any physical demand is the fact that the US Mint recently halted all production (over COVID-19 contagion fears), despite soaring demand for gold coins…
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Morris County COVID-19 Patient Testing Consent Form
Would you sign it?
I authorize BioReference Laboratories and/or Atlantic Health System to release test results or other information necessary to the County of Morris Office of Health Management to process said release of test results.
https://health.morriscountynj.gov/consentForm
This article is from January 2020
DNA sleuths read the coronavirus genome, tracing its origins and looking for dangerous mutations
By Sharon Begley @sxbegle January 24, 2020
As infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists race to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus centered on Wuhan, China, they’re getting backup that’s been possible only since the explosion in genetic technologies: a deep-dive into the genome of the virus known as 2019-nCoV.
Analyses of the viral genome are already providing clues to the origins of the outbreak and even possible ways to treat the infection, a need that is becoming more urgent by the day: Early on Saturday in China, health officials reported 15 new fatalities in a single day, bringing the death toll to 41. There are now nearly 1,100 confirmed cases there.
Reading the genome (which is made of RNA, not DNA) also allows researchers to monitor how 2019-nCoV is changing and provides a roadmap for developing a diagnostic test and a vaccine.
“The genetics can tell us the true timing of the first cases” and whether they occurred earlier than officials realized, said molecular biologist Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research, an expert on viral genomes. “It can also tell us how the outbreak started — from a single event of a virus jumping from an infected animal to a person or from a lot of animals being infected. And the genetics can tell us what’s sustaining the outbreak — new introductions from animals or human-to-human transmission.”
Scientists in China sequenced the virus’s genome and made it available on Jan. 10, just a month after the Dec. 8 report of the first case of pneumonia from an unknown virus in Wuhan. In contrast, after the SARS outbreak began in late 2002, it took scientists much longer to sequence that coronavirus. It peaked in February 2003 — and the complete genome of 29,727 nucleotides wasn’t sequenced until that April.
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https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/24/DNA-SLEUTHS-READ-CORONAVIRUS-GENOME-TRACING-ORIGINS-AND-MUTATIONS/
Wish i could read this and understand it!
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