coronavirus evolution
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:39 pm
In the case of epidemic disease, because the disease is strong most everyone reacts to it in a similar way. So, the general teaching for treatment of epidemic disease is to take 5 cases from any local area. Then combine the most characteristic symptoms of each patient as if the five person were one person. The presumption is that the RNA of the virus does not change so quickly at least within the same locality. But I just read a research paper saying that 70% was the highly infective L form of the virus and 30% was the older form that comes from bats. https://watermark.silverchair..com/nwaa036.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAmswggJnBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggJYMIICVAIBADCCAk0GCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM8kzhGFbRF9t06SZsAgEQgIICHgdyWUlIXmmDbHrDMxzd8a20K9Ztw035jXEx_Rmexg7U7hCTL5Ya2HyJughKSFxbBvEw4Kbg9mtP8OrG3SulMUUo8OuXv5FLi4KoqgG3nYzZ8GWM5CrWtkQajBrB8xrxeFcUhL6LcvrCWjxQJQiynYW-FhxMOS1PO5lfKPK0QJs_rwVr8WJQ_76Gq-f-fXsgzjIPsGh_IymR_nMFdxFkLL-sB_YorIWa9BZQMFiJ_luNB73eHEtGSWfJp_dRsaVvD3yr_mtNNbh1gclkwdpHrzqqpazZZMGCiyWPn8X7WZqvCF1QALfaq6c9j7a1QQRzwmeJrxEH1FZButAm6Y8DX2utKZDzPIerlqFC7iFm8PZ-ZLXEH1AWL9s-Odmip5RJ0bn4-HlaWpq99JODMuJP3yVpEhvaVqy2frJEfnq7NgLZ7bTYe55DDUP2sjephcICrQ1NignTh3WANZIlDT3lMz2s7zo_Xig62eZNOhakakIdlcC6ac524LWVUDSfVx_y4RuGMZNhpLFPo56MmybEGKank_fCF6N_2o0WDLdFqHb8qYyMoCSERbKkrlGgx7n6HRSHqC2xksZrFWgLfHhdtIRCwCuXM_06gtXA7q9wBEa6tW-wtOp5BfU9eVLIGd6-W4nza1g8MavDfe-_8Pvqgj_2svW1d9uoPc4KyiZTaQizdua5ed1aM8TvHA69c9_-fBEkW5haU43RNI_9lx56 The point is, the virus does evolve quite quickly. They are trying to figure out what are the conditions for this rapid evolution. One hypothesis in this paper is that using strong medications (Anti-virals?), pushes the virus to transform more quickly.
Ellen Madono
Ellen Madono