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2020-03-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Corona Is Slowing Down, Humanity Will Survive, Says Biophysicist Michael Levitt
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-16 00:28|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Based on these statistics, Levitt said, he concluded that many people are just naturally immune to the virus.

The Wuhan virus is still adapting as a human pathogen. Adaptive radiation and subsequent competition between subspecies should be expected.

So, alternatively, these people might have survived an infection by a Wuhan subspecies that has evolved to be highly contagious and asympthomatic and thus acquired a measure of immunity.

If people were screened not only for viral RNA but also for antibodies this hypothesis could be confirmed or falsified.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-03-16 02:15||   2020-03-16 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 ^And Singapore developed a test that's based on antibodies not nuclear acids.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-16 03:04||   2020-03-16 03:04|| Front Page Top

#3 But you won't be hearing this information on The View.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-16 09:33||   2020-03-16 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Sanity. Calm. Competence. Numeracy.

Of course you don't hear this man interviewed by our innumerate, incompetent, hysterically and insanely anti-Trump media fools.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-16 09:44||   2020-03-16 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank goodness! I can come out of my underground bunker with my doomsday supply of food, toilet paper, wipes, and hand sanitizer (sarc).

Glad to see voices of reason. Not everyone is concerned with Covid19.

Oldsters and youngsters give the finger to Covid19 and frolic in Ft. Liquordale.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-03-16 10:08||   2020-03-16 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 The "bikers" were good little chilluns and listened to their gummint mammies here in Daytona. They went home early.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-16 10:17||   2020-03-16 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Problem with Levitt's analysis is that the numbers he used are almost certainly wrong, significantly wrong

NKor, Syria still report no infections. Some countries (Iran, Turkey) are almost certainly under counting.

Not even sure what he means by 'virus is on a downturn'. Is this statement quantifiable and testable?
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-16 11:18||   2020-03-16 11:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Not even sure what he means by 'virus is on a downturn'. Is this statement quantifiable and testable?

Click at the link and look at the data from South Korea
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-16 14:41||   2020-03-16 14:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Spain becomes 4th most coronavirus-infected nation, seizes all private health care [passes South Korea]
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-16 15:12||   2020-03-16 15:12|| Front Page Top

#10 grom

SKor has pretty good data as they tested over 200k people.

Also I agree that in SKor the number of new cases per day is now less than the number of people discharged per day, which is great news.

But that is not true in the US or France or Italy or Spain.
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-16 15:33||   2020-03-16 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 ^Because of the time course, it has to run it's time course. SKors got it earlier (probably immediately after China), and it run its time course. USA got it later.
Italy, nobody gets Italy, the only reasonable theory: they have limited med equipment & personnel.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-16 15:42||   2020-03-16 15:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Also I agree that in SKor the number of new cases per day is now less than the number of people discharged per day, which is great news.

Hard to quantify a disease that transcends regional boundaries. Are deaders counted in the ADT numbers, or as transfers to the morgue. Do those that die at home get counted?

How about the instate 50k US troops? Is that population monitored or only reported when they rotate home as DoD numbers?

All the numbers are exclusive or made up but trending bad.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-16 16:51||   2020-03-16 16:51|| Front Page Top

#13 But the silver lining is that Iran is in third place.

Should I feel bad for pointing that out?
Posted by Bobby 2020-03-16 18:02||   2020-03-16 18:02|| Front Page Top

#14 A second (virus after) strategy or task force should be running parallel to any current anti-Covid-19 effort. Not sure how this does not fall within the sphere of WMD/chemical-biological counter proliferation. Still hearing virtually nothing from the intelligence community. That would be the people whose job it is 'to protect us from the threat of WMD proliferation.'

Yes, 9/11 redux. Same-same, no heads lining the Memorial Bridge rail.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-16 18:45||   2020-03-16 18:45|| Front Page Top

#15 #13 But the silver lining is that Iran is in third place.
Should I feel bad for pointing that out?

No.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-16 22:04||   2020-03-16 22:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Iranian numbers are fiction.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-03-16 22:07||   2020-03-16 22:07|| Front Page Top

#17 The really devout folks in Iran have statues to lick so things will sort themselves out.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-03-16 22:09||   2020-03-16 22:09|| Front Page Top

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