COVID-19 Records

Private channel session 591

5 messages over 17m, 2020-11-21 – 2020-11-21.

A “conversation” here is an activity session — a run of messages with under 60 minutes of silence inside it. The channel had no native conversation boundaries.

  1. 2020-11-21 09:42 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.271
    This was Yoshi's H5 flu experiment: "After 24 consecutive passages by air sac inoculation, followed by five passages in chicken brain, the avirulent virus became highly pathogenic in chickens, producing a 100% mortality rate. Sequence analysis at the hemmaglutinin cleavage site of the original isolate revealed a typical avirulence typeof sequence, R-E-T-R, which progressed incrementally to a typical virulence type of sequence, R-R-K-K-R, during repeated passages in chickens." That's a lot of ferrets for 29 passaages which aren't cheap, but worth the effort.
  2. 2020-11-21 09:48 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.271
    Denmark has a lot of cheap mink up for sale...
  3. 2020-11-21 09:56 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.271
    Sad but true - you should suggest they put some to a better use than yet another coat for the likes of Melania, Ivanka et al.
  4. 2020-11-21 09:59 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.271
    Of course with Donny Jr the latest Trump to get infected that crime family doing it's best at "serial passage."
  5. 2020-11-21 10:00 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.272
    Yeah - it seems like a recent mutation in the virus genome might have selected for stupid.