Coronavirus

Magnus said:
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A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection

Vaccines and targeted therapeutics for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are currently lacking. Here, the authors report a human monoclonal antibody capable of neutralizing both authentic SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 by targeting a common epitope.
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Thanks, Maga-nus. It looks like I managed to miss this by not looking properly.
 
Black Wizard said:
I still think China has been lying though.
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Obviously, since:

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Many valid points made in that video, but you can smell the pieces of propaganda inserted in there as well. It is well-established that the Chinese government utilizes the wrongdoings of America and anti-American sentiments to legitimize its positions and influence people to gloss over their awful policies and unethical actions. (America employs similar rhetoric and fearmongering attempts as well, not in a centralized fashion like China but still)
 
In the meantime, the UK is now leading the death rate chart in Europe and is only second in the world to the USA. We are not top of the league table in terms of number of deaths per 100,000 people, but give us time and we will get there.

Funnily enough, the day we overtook Italy as European leaders in this morbid chart, the front pages of the right-wing papers in the UK were dedicated to break the news of how Prof Ferguson, the academic whose mathematical model was used by the Government to introduce the lockdown (and quite possibly save tens of thousands of lives) had broken that lockdown being visited by his lover who - gasp, horror! - also happens to be a left-wing activist. The visits took place 37 and 28 days ago. Call me a cynic, but I think those papers might be trying to distract the public's attention from the abysmal track record of our government in this crisis...

Prof Neil Ferguson has done the right thing: apologised for his error of judgement and stepped down as member of SAGE, the group of scientists advising the UK government.

At the same time, the 400,000 PPE kits bought by the government recently to protect the healthcare workers do not meet British safety standards and would have to be returned.

Would any member of the government step down? I bet they won't.
 
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Just seen a tweet about it being likely that football matches will be played behind closed doors in Holland for at least a year. The dutch term for such matches is "spookduels" :lol:
 
The British populist tabloids have been and continue to be utterly, utterly irresponsible, more so than they've even been in my opinion.

They continue to play the don't-give-a-toss White Van Man persona, assuming the default opinion of the average UK citizen, when I'm not convinced it is. From this standpoint they're reporting very irresponsibly and not so much reflecting the views of the target readership like they traditionally did as introducing ideas to people that coronavirus really isn't a big deal.
 
The thing is, I have family who read things like this, and they do have more brains than that, but they still think a lot of the less sensational news carried in them is responsible and fair, when it's actually all of the same flavour. The online content (especially of the Mail) is also a lot more rabid than the print content. It's designed to be shared on and grab attention via social media - it doesn't matter if visitors and critics are for or against.
 
Brigantium said:
The thing is, I have family who read things like this, and they do have more brains than that, but they still think a lot of the less sensational news carried in them is responsible and fair, when it's actually all of the same flavour. The online content (especially of the Mail) is also a lot more rabid than the print content. It's designed to be shared on and grab attention via social media - it doesn't matter if visitors and critics are for or against.
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Probably I should have not tarred all the readership with the same brush, but it is quite shocking to see what things people believe are true because a tabloid said so.

These guys got it spot on:

 
Unfortunately, I think a lot of the readership does end up tainted by it. I'm not a massive believer in newspapers being able to make people believe stuff they don't already kind of think anyway, but I hate the way the populist media are trying to unnecessarily shoehorn attitudes and opinions associated with one political stance on specific issues into their coverage of completely unrelated issues, while passing it off as 'straight' news. Moderate readers can spot the strongly political stories, but don't see how other coverage is shaped and coloured by the same bias.
 
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