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2020-07-31 Science & Technology

Scientists identify six different ‘types' of COVID-19 in new study

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-31 01:35|| 2020-07-31 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I was always told it was nine. Many avoid testing even with symptoms. Going on vacation, don't say where. Companies are allowing employees to return to work rather than have them in two week quarantine. Rebellion in full bloom. Lots of luck with enforcement. Not going to happen with a free people. The Con virus lives on in the media and political world forever. A never ending story.

Posted by Dale 2020-07-31 04:10|| 2020-07-31 04:10|| Front Page Top

Phase-II has begun and we've still got Chinese products jumping off our shelves. Can there be any doubt what these SOB's are up to? Will the betrayal never end ?

If I lived in a potential 'kill box' like New Delhi, I'd be very concerned.

The China-Pakistan project has undertaken experiments on the Ebola-like Crimean-CCHFV, a rapid-onset fever with a fatality rate of 25%

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-31 04:21|| 2020-07-31 04:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Classifying the symptoms into six groups, from mild to severe.

Posted by KBK 2020-07-31 09:21|| 2020-07-31 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ^More productive to see if each strain adapted to a particular human phenotype.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-07-31 09:38|| 2020-07-31 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 More productive to see if each strain adapted to a particular human phenotype.

That's an interesting question. Viruses *do* mutate.

I wonder if some of the re-infections or "2nd waves" are simply another strain of the virus coming around.

Posted by SteveS 2020-07-31 10:34|| 2020-07-31 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Are they all from the Wuhan, China lab?

The study has not been peer-reviewed. Doesn't seem to mean too much these days.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-07-31 12:40|| 2020-07-31 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Strep throat now biggest problem in my area even with all the restrictions and masks.

Posted by Dale 2020-07-31 15:26|| 2020-07-31 15:26|| Front Page Top

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