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The Official Thread of Systemic Racism
Chadatog replied to SuperSpreader's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
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There are 2 aspects to tests, specificity and sensitivity. In my experience you would want to have a rapid antibody test to be not very specific (ok to pick up similar caronavirus antibodies) and be rather sensitive with a higher rate of false positives. You can then go back and retest the positive samples using a virus nutralization method that takes more time/ resources, but you are screening out the definitely negative cases. Also don't get me started on the differences in antibodies (Igg, Igm) and how usually trying to detect one doesn't mean you can detect the other in the same test.
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Essential worker, we split up our section into two groups and the other 2 come in at 7:00AM to 12:00PM and we come in at 12:15PM to 5:15PM. We get 3 hours "work" from home (but really how much work can I do at home when I'm using BSC's, pipettes, and thermocyclers) We have limited contact with the people in our building between the 2 shifts. I think this is going to end on June 1st. Also my family got the full stimulus.
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The Official Thread of Systemic Racism
Chadatog replied to SuperSpreader's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
To @skillzdadirecta point. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651 -
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Chadatog replied to GeneticBlueprint's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
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Just some clarification on this lab, it was doing surveillance testing and research on coronavirus in wild animals and due to mishandling could of infected people and then mutated to allow for person to person infection. The virus itself was never cooked up in a lab. We do similar testing in wild animal populations for avian flu and swine flu. This still doesn't absolve the lab if they were responsible due to improper handling, but this lab was not the type of facility that could specifically engineer the virus. Here is an article about the lab in question which the US supports and was being asked to send more support by the US officials that were inspecting the facility in 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/