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Re: Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments

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Post by londons_explore » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

blueprint wrote: post #28

londons_explore wrote: post #27

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It has many of the same risks as cannibalism - there are lots of unknown viruses and proteins that normally don't get transferred from person to person, but could cause harm, and if you start distributing them widely, you're gonna have problems.

can the relevant antibodies be isolated?

Viruses and prions are so small it's pretty much impossible to be sure you have removed them all from some sample.

Sure you can remove most, but you'll never get all of them.

Re: Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments

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Post by corona-chan » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

russli1993 wrote: post #24

corona-chan wrote: post #19

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I would say the numbers deviating from the model after it has been publicized and discussed online are still evidence against the data being fabricated, but weaker than it could have been because there were definitely Chinese people watching those discussion on social media, and so the idea that they might have corrected the mistake and started adding more variation isn't that unlikely.

wow you make it sound like someone is sitting in front of a computer, watching reaction of foreigners on reddit, and tweaking the numbers on an excel sheet. Really? You know, Chinese ppl online really hoped it wasnt a quadratic curve. If the government was just making up the numbers and trying to hide the problem, why not make it linear, or square root? why pick quadratic, such terrifying curve...why say its cornavir…

I have no doubt there are Chinese propagandists sitting in front of computers watching and interacting with foreigners. I don't know why you think that idea is so ridiculous. The west does it, why wouldn't China?

You're asking a bunch of unrelated questions. It's pretty obvious the epidemic in China is very serious. That's why they are taking all those measures.

Re: Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments

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Post by DarthGhandi » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 4:43 AM UTC

koheripbal wrote: post #26

DarthGhandi wrote: post #15

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Quite sure they had a Zika virus vaccine completed within a few months after the outbreak. Obviously getting regulatory approval takes much, much longer but people would probably be surprised how quickly such things can be developed.

Zika vaccine is still in clinical trials.

> Obviously getting regulatory approval takes much, much longer