#coronaviruses

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I’m currently reading The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure by Dan Werb as part of my local library’s Summer Reading Program, and in the third chapter there’s the story of how Dr. Ralph Baric got into studying coronaviruses back in the early 1980′s, long before the virus family became known as a danger to humans with the SARS epidemic in the early 2000′s and longer still before the COVID pandemic. He became interested in this viral family because, by RNA virus standards, they’re enormous: bigger than any that should exist based on our knowledge of RNA viruses at the time. How very queer, right?

I would love for SARS-CoV-2 to be eradicated from the world as smallpox and rinderpest were. I would love to never even encounter its basically harmless cousins that only cause common colds again. I shiver at the fact that the pandemic is not yet over, from compassion and fear for my fellow humans and from fear for myself.

And yet, it struck me, once again, how even terrors like pathogenic coronaviruses are still, at some level or another, beautiful and marvelous pieces of our intricate biosphere. Infectious diseases have been a long-term special interest of mine, since on one level disease and poison are one of those things that terrify me the most, the thought of something being Wrong within you that you cannot see but you can feel the pain of, and on another level preferring informed terror over uninformed any day.

So, Coronaviridae... I may hate what the most famous among you is doing, but you are, after all, only a family of viruses. Giants of the RNA virus world, you are equal parts fascinating and terrifying.

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How Capitalist Objectives Impact on Global Public Health

An Oxford University study showed, in June 2020, that despite the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919 and two subsequent flu pandemics in the USA in the 1960s and 1970s had proven to be multiple times more lethal than COVID-19, that they had very limited impacts on the stock market at the time. In comparison, the Oxford University article reports that: The evidence we amass suggests that…

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researchers compiled records of coronavirus infection prevalence in wild bats from 110 studies, spanning over 80,000 tested samples, and looked at biases in the way research on bat coronaviruses has been conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A compound shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold

A compound shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold

Researchers at UBC’s Life Sciences Institute have identified a compound that shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold. The findings, published this week in Molecular Biomedicine, reveal a potential path toward antiviral treatments that could be used against many different pathogens. “Beyond COVID-19, there…

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om lard, I appreciate this very much. Note - this is not a medical source, the medical source that is referenced is an outdated medical book published in 1989 American Medical Association’s Encyclopedia of Medicine.

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The website does do a good job explaining the concept of viral families, and some terminology and sources are underlined if you wanna check sourced info. It still exists as a fact check site, so more reading into the complexities of the virus are need.

I was seeking any physical publications for covid-19 that would be used for the study of the disease, out of curiosities sake. The medical community is still struggling to fully grasp the reach of this pathogen, how to mitigate those with complications - either vaxxed or unvaxxed - and how to preserve essential medical therapies in the ongoing treatment of those who contract the disease and fall into covid crash (my term, not medicals). Thus far, the only solid and up-to-date information I can find beyond medical articles, are documents published to medical sites such as National Library of Medicine, MayoClinic, PubMed, among others.

“A Facebook post claims to show a medical encyclopedia from 1989 showing that coronaviruses cause the common cold, which could imply that Covid-19 is no different from a cold. 

This picture needs more context. The word ‘coronavirus’ has been used as shorthand for SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes Covid-19. But coronaviruses are actually a group of hundreds of different viruses, some which cause severe diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Covid-19. 

Others cause much milder diseases, such as the common cold. An estimated 15% of adult colds are caused by coronaviruses and tend to mostly affect humans during the winter.” -  Covid-19 is not the same as a common cold, 2021

I wanted to tell you that story, so I can tell you kids this story. Please listen carefully

ITS BEEN 2 FUCKING YEARS PEOPLE NEED TO RETAIN INFORMATION, MY FUCKING NUMBERS

There is no such thing as “flu-like” symptoms. That is what an ignorant person behind a podium says, because they failed basic high school biology. Flu-like symptoms are a myth - they don’t exist. There is no such thing as flu-like symptoms.

Keep reading before you go full facebook in replies. What is actually meant through “flu-like” symptoms, is that a person is experiencing 

CLINICAL SYMPTOMS OF AN INFECTION

It doesn’t matter if the infection is viral or bacterial, or a fungi - or if you’ve been bitten on the arm by a zombie and now you have a fever. Bad example. It doesn’t matter if you cut your foot on a jagged rock, and now you have a bacterial infection germinating in your toe.

YOU WILL EXPERIENCE CLINICAL SYMPTOMS OF AN INFECTION - i.e., fever, chills or sweats, stiff neck, sore throat or new throat sores, diarrhea, cramping, vomiting - these being the most universal

It doesn’t matter if you have a rhinovirus, or strep throat, or pneumonia, or rabies, or ebola, or tetanus, or meningitis, or tuberculosis - some of these diseases can be fatal, even with medical intervention.

FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS DOES NOT MEAN ITS THE FLU. IT MEANS YOU HAVE AN INFECTION, AND THE EASIEST WAY TO GET A “HOW MUCH DOES IT HURT” RATING IS CORRELATING THE DISCOMFORT TO SOMETHING MAINSTREAM.

How many times we people are having a civil youtube discussion on covid bullshit, and we’ll get a yoyo from the flat-earth forum

The Click voice: “Oh, We MeDicAL PeOpLe KnOw Now ItS TeH FlU”

I would physically throw this person down a very deep well. Instead, I vomit medical sourced info all over their cake. Fucking cease the misinformation you cuck. Fucking flu doesn’t give healthy people blood clots and ischemic strokes. Grow a fucking set of boobies and do actual academic research.

2 years and we’re still on colors and shapes.

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Unlike Delta variant, Omicron less likely to cause long Covid: Lancet study

The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is less likely to cause long COVID than the Delta strain, according to a study published in The Lancet journal.

Long COVID is defined as having new or ongoing symptoms four weeks or more after the start of the disease, the researchers said.

Symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of concentration, and joint pain, which can adversely affect day-to-day activities, and in some cases can be severely limiting, they said.

The researchers found that the odds of experiencing long COVID were between 20-50 per cent less during the Omicron period versus the Delta period, depending on age and time since vaccination.

"The Omicron variant appears substantially less likely to cause Long-COVID than previous variants but still 1 in 23 people who catch COVID-19 go on to have symptoms for more than four weeks," said study lead author Claire Steves from King's College London, UK.

The study identified 56,003 UK adult cases first testing positive between December 20, 2021, and March 9, 2022, when Omicron was the dominant strain.

Researchers compared these cases to 41,361 cases first testing positive between June 1, 2021, and November 27, 2021, when the Delta variant was dominant.

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"The famed Notre Dame Cathedral, which burned down a year ago..."

WHAT FUCKING YEAR IS IT??

[pekasairroc]

It should be considered professional and scientifically accurate to refer to the non-covid coronaviruses as “Weenie Hut Jr. coronaviruses”

[howgaytobequeer]

“Navigating a new biological system that you’re poorly adapted to is a bit like trying to navigate an eighteen-wheel semi-trailer through a low-ceilinged parking garage: you’re either going to do it and cause serious damage, or you simply won’t be able to do it at all.” - Dan Werb, The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure

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ok yeah it's officially covid

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What did SARS Vaccine Research Tell US?

What did SARS Vaccine Research Tell US?

The following blog looks back over the two decades leading up to 2020 to see what was said about SARS, vaccines and coronaviruses.In 2016, numerous celebrities died starting in December 2015 with Lemmy from Motorhead. Many were in their later years such as Terry Wogan. Some met tragic ends, such as Prince. Others were in their early 50s, such as George Michael who had been brought back from the…

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Biology of Viruses (New Coronavirus)

On January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency in relation to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). the importance of circulating information between countries with a high degree of neutrality and accuracy, as there were concerns about obfuscating or issuing incorrect data with the aim of misleading citizens So, what is coronavirus?

PraxiLabs will give you a quick introduction to the biology of viruses. Then we will address the most critical reports from health organizations worldwide regarding coronavirus. You will learn more about Coronavirus, including how it appeared, the symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

https://blog.praxilabs.com/2020/02/03/biology-of-viruses-new-coronavirus/

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Pretty cells are battling COVID-19

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Opinion | Western Scientists Cheered On China's Covid Repression - The Wall Street Journal

Opinion | Western Scientists Cheered On China's Covid Repression – The Wall Street Journal

China’s zero-Covid policies have recently come under criticism from public-health leaders—including those at the World Health Organization—who once held them up as a model for the West. “China’s success rests largely with a strong administrative system that it can mobilise in times of threat, combined with the ready agreement of the Chinese people to… Read more