Coronavirus has 'stable genome,'
study suggests, so vaccine could
help 'over many years'
Fox News,
by
Chris Ciaccia
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
3/25/2020 11:11:44 AM
Currently, there is no known specific medicine to treat the novel coronavirus, but researchers in Italy suggest that the COVID-19 disease is slow to mutate, based on its genetic material.
This finding could aid in helping large swaths of people over an extended period of time once a specific cure is found.
The study, which was produced by two independent teams in the country, used "a new next-generation sequencing (NGS) research assay" from Thermo Fisher Scientific on Italian COVID-19 patients. The experts then compared them to a sample from the original outbreak to come up with their findings.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
KatieJo 3/25/2020 12:28:45 PM (No. 357576)
But there is a known medicine, hydroxychloroquine mixed with azithromycin. Sounds like it's almost 100% effective. I for one, will never take the vaccine even if they come up with one. They were talking about mandatory vaccines too early in the game, I'm convinced it's part of the end game. You can "anti-vax" me all you want. I just don't believe it's much of a stretch to think that big government and big pharma could be up to something bad.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2020 12:35:59 PM (No. 357594)
#1, I really do hope you are right, but the current level of testing doesn't convince me that we actually know how effective it will really be.
Would I insist on trying chloroquine and a Z-pack if I had it? Yes, absolutely. But I am not yet convinced that it will be the 'magic bullet' that many are assuming it already is.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2020 12:37:09 PM (No. 357595)
I wonder if those who 'won't take a vaccine' took the smallpox and polio vaccines?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 3/25/2020 1:23:16 PM (No. 357672)
One wonders, if the virus is really that stable, how it came to mutate to its current, highly contagious, state. Many are insisting that this is not a man-made variant. Hmm.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2020 1:30:05 PM (No. 357682)
#4, in many cases, these are old viruses, just the first time interacting with people. Ebola is an example of this, and we still do not definitively know where Ebola hides out between outbreaks. Bats was long thought to be the wild reservoir, but extensive, years of work has failed to find it in bats in the region where it pops up periodically, around the Ebola River, hence the name. In other cases, viruses have mutated, random, often driven by a cosmic ray hit or random gamma ray impact on just the right place.
The annual common flu mutates inside pig's Gi tract, caused when Chinese farmers raise pigs, ducks, chickens and people inside the same building. Pigs eat and wallow in duck and chicken poop, mixing avian and mammalian viruses and popping out a new variant about every year. The world's annual gift from medieval China.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 3/25/2020 1:42:48 PM (No. 357700)
Few specifics about this study, which just "suggests" a vaccine could help.
Smells like either junk science or fake news, neither of which deserves the click.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/25/2020 2:44:34 PM (No. 357784)
So, what happens when the next exotic disease comes out of a communist Chinese wet market?
Are they working on a vaccine for that one?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2020 6:37:41 PM (No. 358010)
I recommend the book Hot Zone, which I read 20 years ago, for those interested in how we have dealt with diseases of this magnitude before. It is about Ebola and Marburg. A harrowing tale, worth reading.
Marburg almost escaped from a research monkey facility in Reston, Va. ......but read the book. Clearly we all didn't die from it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 3/25/2020 7:47:17 PM (No. 358054)
I wasn't aware of any "specific medicine" that could treat any strain of influenza. You let it run its course and manage symptoms. Am I missing something?
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A little bit of good news at a time when most news outlets are trying to outdo each other with the most horrific news that they can find, or make up.
This is an RNA virus, so, as a general concept, RNA is less stable over time than DNA, more susceptible to random drift. But it seems that we have a bit of luck that this particular one seems pretty stable. Once we have a working vaccine, we can expect it to be effective for a longer time.