We are holding at 459 testing positive atm in my city 
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Reports now of MIchigan shoppers spewing used PPE in parking lots. We wonder why are numbers are do high. That’s simply sociopathic.
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If I’m not mistaken there’s a CV test in the US provided to Doctors with results in 15 or 45 min… if I heard it right.
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Yes, it was just to compare to the normal PCR-test that takes 6-24 hours… I’ve also seen some cassettes that takes a tiny amount of blood with some reagent and shows some stripes, like in a pregnancy test - those apparently take 10-20 minutes 
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This was two days ago
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Karma is a bitch 
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This was because the the governor of NY is furious. We know he needs them. the president may need to look at other states for now to get more. It won’t be much but It’s something.
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He’s trying. If this continues he’s a shoe in for re-election. Biden knows it too. It’s a shame it had to be like this though.
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After watching today’s CV Press Conf. I noticed there was little mention of reopening the the US for biz. He must be watching the polls.
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I did not see the funny little dr dude either 
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I paused the press conf. until a little later, but so far it looks like a solo act.
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(Yahoo News, March 27, 2020):
“8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here’s what clues they’re giving scientists”
The article references this web-site/page: https://nextstrain.org/ncov
Different symptoms, same strains
COVID-19 hits people differently, with some feeling only slightly under the weather for a day, others flat on their backs sick for two weeks and about 15% hospitalized. Currently, an estimated 1% of those infected die. The rate varies greatly by country and experts say it is likely tied to testing rates rather than actual mortality.
Chiu says it appears unlikely the differences are related to people being infected with different strains of the virus. “The current virus strains are still fundamentally very similar to each other,” he said.
The COVID-19 virus does not mutate very fast. It does so eight to 10 times more slowly than the influenza virus, said Anderson, making its evolution rate similar to other coronaviruses such as Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
It’s also not expected to spontaneously evolve into a form more deadly than it already is to humans. The SARS-CoV-2 is so good at transmitting itself between human hosts, said Andersen, it is under no evolutionary pressure to evolve.
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The various hypotheses surrounding the evolutionary origins of viruses is quite interesting.
One article (in “The Conversation”, 2018):
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Now this is interesting:
I can envision that relative virus “toxicity” would probably not increase - because more toxic mutated-variants would tend to be decomposed along with its deceased hosts, leaving the less toxic mutated-variants to further propagate within a host (“substrate”) population(s).
Does the above (quoted) statement about “evolutionary pressure” imply that a decreasing amount of circulating SARS CoV-2 Antigen (the microbe itself) within a host (“substrate”) population(s) would somehow cause mutations toward more non-toxic mutated-variants ? That seems counter-intuitive - as those (so affected) hosts would be more likely to expire (and obscure the microbial antigen)
On the other hand, mutating to a less toxic form would only seem to enhance the microbe’s existence in various suitable hosts. Thus, the “evolutionary pressure” would be uni-polar, progressing towards less toxic mutated-variants. (Sort of like a) “socialization” process.
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(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March, 13, 2020):
“Black plague, Spanish flu, smallpox: All hold lessons for coronavirus”