SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Wuhan PR video ... dealing with a possibility sick driver that's belligerent, just in case anyone thinks they don't take things seriously;

ok - It's not as bad as watching the Keystone Cops comedy strips, but yeah, they need a whole lot more practice - blockade van day late/dollar short.
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I thought the butterfly net was a nice touch.

 

is that bug spray?

 

ny not looking good

 

ma: 1,160 cases, up from 780

11 deaths, up fro 9

8% hospitalized, down from 10

14,000 tested, up from 9,000

 

Per Johns Hopkins and 'three day doubling,' it looks like the USA will exceed Chinese reported cases by Friday.

Bob Wilson

 

Yes I do.

Just to be accurate...the Pentium (1993) had one core (with 2 in order pipelines. )
The Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III had one core with 3 out-of-order pipelines.
The Pentium IV added hyperthreading: two threads on one core
Pentium D (a variant of Pentium IV) was the first Intel dual core CPU chip in 2005.
Then they switched to using the "Core" brand name.

Mike[/QUOTE]

 

Which works best against a virus:

• soap
• detergent
• no difference

My understanding is an RNA virus has a lipid coating. There are claims that a detergent is better at breaking a lipid apart than soap. There are also claims that soap is less effective in hard water and can form a scum. But I'm more interested in the chemistry between the virus lipid shell and either soap or detergent.

Bob Wilson

 

World leaders are impacted too.

Prince Charles tests positive for novel coronavirus - CNN

 

Atlanta announces their ICU units are at full capacity.
Atlanta mayor says ICU units at capacity

 

president of harvard and wife test positive

 

With no further action on my part, the client on my computer finally got a unit assigned last night. First sign was one of the cats curled up on the laptop.

I figured out how to look up the project numbers, it's apparently working on an old, low-numbered cancer project. Not that it really matters, I'm just trusting that the network is optimizing things properly.

 

I look at it this way, the worst that could happen is that you will inadvertently help to cure a type of cancer. It is hard to find a downside to that.

I see the researchers adding COVID-19 projects, but we still don't know just how much work the volunteers could do if the bottlenecks were removed.

 

Nice short article on what we can surmise about COVID-19 immunity after recovery at this point:

If You Get Coronavirus And Recover, Do You Develop Immunity : Goats and Soda : NPR

 

Unfortunately with high-profile figures, we never know how the world press is going to be spun

 

Looking at tracking websites yesterday, it looked to me that it will be a very close race between USA and Italy in overtaking China in case counts.

And we could well have a tie for that, i.e. China a may fall directly to 3rd place in a single step, never getting a chance to momentarily hold 2nd place.

Separately, will Italy get a temporary chance for 1st place before the USA inevitably over takes it? (Our daily case increase is double theirs, so we will quickly surpass them.) Or will Italy still remain #2 even as it passes China, i.e. will USA leap directly from #3 to #1 without a pause at #2?

 

It could get worse than that. The greatly increased computing capacity could speed cures to multiple types of cancer.

 

FYI, I just got several work units on the Corona virus project, #14335. It appears the Folding at Home bottlenecks are opening up and the Covid-19 research is available to work on. I've been getting work units non-stop for 36 hours now.


#14335 - SARS-CoV-2 RBD domain in complex with human neutralizing S230 antibody Fab fragment (PDBs: 6nb8, 2ghv) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.028]

 

It's nice to feel like I'm contributing "something" at least. They're really cranking them out now. I'm working on F@H projects work unit #13832 and the higher priority #14533.

(#13832-This is a SARS2-nCoV-2 protein. It's called the 3CL-PRO, or the 3CL-like proteinase. It turns out that the virus actually generates all its proteins as one giant "polyprotein" and then chops the protein up to let them be free. Lots of viruses do this.

#14533-Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease - potential drug target.These are high-priority **CPU** projects to simulate the main protease of the COVID-19 )