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Cyprus approves use of human COVID-19 medication to fight lethal virus mutation in cats

2023-08-04

Posted by:Skidmark

#3 Ah, here it is

This is an interesting idea as to why one might have wanted to engineer a non-canonical FCS into proto-SARS2: they could have been inspired by how a mutated FCS in feline CoVs turns a harmless FECV into a deadly FIPV. Some of those deadly strains had their FCS mutate into PRRAR: https://t.co/cBLexSRU8x
— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) September 25, 2022

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-08-04 21:03

#2 While on the one hand I don't like remdesivir, on the other...

I don't have the link handy, but I've seen speculation that covid basically was a chimera of the bat viruses they found in Yunnan spliced together with the furin cleavage gene from Feline Infectious Peritonitis. This bit from Cyprus, I think, is a big clue.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-08-04 21:01

#1 It's a Covid medication, Floor Wax, AND a Dessert topping!

Posted by: Frank G 2023-08-04 11:07

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