[HN Gopher] Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to si...
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Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets
Author : cachecrab
Score : 65 points
Date : 2024-03-24 19:00 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| mitchbob wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20240324201541/https://www.techn...
| sergioisidoro wrote:
| I made the mistake of clicking the original link. Needed to
| close no less than 4 pop ups to read the article.
|
| How is this acceptable design nowadays, and how are we still
| tolerating this?
| tetris11 wrote:
| Firefox+UBO, no issues at all. Also I recommend others
| downvote both of us so that we don't distract from the
| content.
| banana_giraffe wrote:
| Freakanomics recently did an episode on this:
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| https://freakonomics.com/podcast/water-water-everywhere-but-...
| greazy wrote:
| And the preprint
| https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.28.22281553v...
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| Edit: this pre print is from more than a year ago! It was just
| published in Lancet
| https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
| egberts1 wrote:
| I remember researching then writing about the primary methods of
| RNA-based virus dispersal:
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| 1. Methane (meat-packing plant, migrant fruit pickers)
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| 2. Chlorine (swimming pool, drinking water)
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| 3. Vinegar (cooking areas)
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| 4. Complex Biomass (mucus, cough)
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| Anything to foster an aerosolized targeted-pH air.
| jna_sh wrote:
| I was really hoping this would be the Ohio cryptic lineage, which
| was being tracked by the same team
| https://x.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665444603829407746?s=20
| BrandonMarc wrote:
| Rather abrupt end to the article. Lots of ethical questions left
| unanswered .... which i guess is the point.
| jackfoxy wrote:
| I would feel we live in a much better world if virologists were
| allowed to trace back deadly viruses to individuals like this and
| they were prohibited from doing gain of function research,
| including any of their shell games whereby they cop deniability
| that they are indeed engaged in gain of function.
| j16sdiz wrote:
| I would feel we live in a much better world if CIA can
| masquerade as virologist which is allowed to take DNA samples
| with nasal swab.
| pstrateman wrote:
| calm down Mr bin laden
| flybrand wrote:
| > could it mean that the massive covid infection in the gut
| didn't show up on a nasal swab?
|
| Shouldn't they have known that beforehand? Isn't that a big red
| flag in this entire endeavor?
| HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
| Covid is supposedly a respiratory tract infection, so who'd be
| expecting it to only show up in the gut? It seems they still
| don't know whether that is in fact the explanation.
| rain_iwakura wrote:
| I'm honestly of the opinion that all of the ethical questions
| that arose during this search are fairly minuscule compared to
| the potential findings that could help us end this never-ending
| outbreak altogether. (At least by developing better targets for
| drugs like Paxlovid, if their hypothesis about GI tract
| replication turns out to be correct.)
|
| Of them all the potential to reveal that the patient X is hiding
| their HIV status is probably the biggest tragedy that can happen,
| since it will compromise their social and work standing due to
| stigma. If, however, this person does NOT know they have HIV or
| something similarly immunocompromising, it's in fact their moral
| prerogative to find this person and inform them of their disease,
| instead of beating around the bush trying to go easy on their
| feelings instead of potentially saving their life.
|
| Either way, at some point it becomes a question of common-good vs
| individual good and these options aren't so bad to even have this
| debate.
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