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Am I reading the documentation correctly, that you have to register at GISAID to download the sequences, and that you can't publish any part of the sequences in subsequent papers? Would it be problematic in any way to just release them under a CC-BY-SA-NC license?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType...
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Or people having just a mild variant which does not cause fever and airway problems. If they think it is something else, or don't care, it is just as well a transfer risk as asymptomatic individuals and in my opinion at least as likely.
Well, what are you supposed to do? If you have the snuffles, are you supposed to react like it's COVID, or react like it's just one of the million other colds and such going around every winter until things get bad enough that your symptoms concern you? If you react like it's COVID, then what - go to a hospital or otherwise burden the health system? All they can tell you is to quarantine yourself, unless/until it get…
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My father in law is a pilot (currently not showing any systems virus) has been back and forth between China, Korea, HK (Guangzou most recently) at least 3 times since January. His last trip he was one of only 30 people in the hotel, being monitored every 30 minutes or so for fever while on a layover. His company is still scheduling him trips there, so I have no doubt with companies still requiring similar travel that…
mmmrtl's explanation seems more parsimonious.
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> If you have the snuffles If you just have the sniffles you probably shouldn't panic and go to the ER, but you should stay the hell away from big conventions and not go to work, at least within reason. I work for a company that has unmetered sick leave (that you can take without people judging you), great VPN/work from home policy, and will actively shun people who come to work sick (that is, no one is even remotely…
I agree 100% for myself - I always self quarantine and work remote when I have a cold. However, you gotta remember that the vast majority of people still need to be physically present and can't work remote; and most of them have far more limited sick leave policies, sometimes including only partial pay, etc.
Actually, as I'm typing this Im hearing someone coughing and sneezing a few rows from me, and yet again Ill have to talk to them and maybe even their manager, because here we're super privileged and there's exactly zero reason to come in sick.
I agree not everyone has that privilege, but if those who DO actually exercised it, it would at least have SOME impact on the spread.