dljones

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by dljones 5y ago
Not what it says. Immunocompromised people, in order for their "omicron" to develop resistance to the various treatments available (the monoclonal antibodies) must have been exposed to those treatments. If they were exposed to tho
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by dljones 5y ago
Neither one of those hypotheses accounts for the four weirdnesses described in the article. So they don't seem like very good hypotheses. Similarly "it came from an animal" that we've never found two years later is not a
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by dljones 5y ago
So, you take on faith that the s/ns ratio as described by "Eigenrobot" who is quoting "Brett" (who are they?) is correct, and the s/ns ratio described by many microbiologists and genome experts, identifiable on
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by dljones 5y ago
The ratio is one of four "weirdnesses" laid out by the author, which a lab leak might parsimoniously explain, and which, so far, other hypotheses do not neatly or parsimoniously explain. So for you to jump to "no predictive v
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by dljones 5y ago
Yes, s/he clarified it. "[Edited, 5 Jan 2021, to add: Many people have been confused about the statement about delta, so I must have worded it poorly. I’m not saying delta originated in a lab leak. I’m saying delta escaped from a
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by dljones 5y ago
S/he clarified the delta thing: "[Edited, 5 Jan 2021, to add: Many people have been confused about the statement about delta, so I must have worded it poorly. I’m not saying delta originated in a lab leak. I’m saying delta escaped
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by dljones 5y ago
S/he clarified it now. "[Edited, 5 Jan 2021, to add: Many people have been confused about the statement about delta, so I must have worded it poorly. I’m not saying delta originated in a lab leak. I’m saying delta escaped from a l
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by dljones 5y ago
"poorly monitored infections of the immunocompromised can easily explain this. It hardly seems necessary to posit nefarious secret labs when COVID is constantly spreading among billions of people, a significant fraction of whom are imm
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by dljones 5y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, yes. But take another look at the phylogenetic tree. Those are huge gaps. See also this article describing how good South Africa is at spotting and sequencing variants."The reality is tha
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by dljones 5y ago
The Nature article you mention says, "These data reveal strong selection on SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy, which is associated with the emergence of viral variants that show evidence of reduced susceptibility to neutral