Message from @Divinity
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any medical professional know what makes up these special kits for testing corona? I keep hearing they need special "testing kits", but no one is saying what makes it any different than any other tests.
Not a medical professional but I believe the kits target specific proteins only found on the target coronavirus so they find SARS-CoV-2 but not other coronaviruses.
ah, ok. Just curious if they need these kits or if they can find it without, if in a longer process.
Well the first case caught in the wild in Washington state was found by sequencing its genome but that's not normally how it's done.
There are more complex ways of doing it and that is what the early CDC tests at their labs were doing but they need a simply way they can send out kits with just swabs, tubes, and a reagent or reagents to give easy results on site in a couple hours.
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LOW-er CO emissions **day 12**
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(although there's some slight increase, approx +15% overall)
<:swet:671404160393936948> that map
so ... starting from black friday Latvia is closing schools, universities, kindergardens and all gatherings of 200 people or more
HNNNGH
I CAN FEEL THE ROTFATHERS GIFT SPREADING
wait, Latvia still exists?
to the surprise of most of its inhabitants: yes
sheeet
muahahahahahahaha
just because it works, doesnt mean you should do it
(bc if mutation, it is more ducked)
That's like asking people to die maybe for something that might happen
*fucked
I am somewhat impressed by the "UK strategy"
just because it works........
it *could* work
"stramtegi"
The NHS isn't going to be able to handle that many cases at one time. Also we still have no idea what this virus does to you long-term.
fucked if you do and fucked if you don't
@Captain Conundrum but some idea of some permanent damage, right?
lung damage?
> During the third phase, lung damage continues to build—which can result in respiratory failure. Even if death doesn’t occur, some patients survive with permanent lung damage. According to the WHO, SARS punched holes in the lungs, giving them “a honeycomb-like appearance”—and these lesions are present in those afflicted by novel coronavirus, too.