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CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19

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Dear Rob Califf MD, Prof Greely, Peter Norvig and All,

From Richard Dawkins:
"Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus"
ROB GRENFELL & TREVOR DREW, THE CONVERSATION 17 FEB 2020
https://www.sciencealert.com/who-says-a-coronavirus-vaccine-is-18-months-away
( https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1233099624472293376?s=20 )


This makes me wonder about:

"Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ?
in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with sim in GooglePoly ? https://twitter.com/CramerLab/status/1233697069753389057?s=20 Test in China You_at_W U aS &
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) per  https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1233099624472293376?s=20 ~ "


https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1233099624472293376?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1234159280590213120?s=20
(COVID2019 https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1234158837621354496?s=20 )


And per:

"Visualizing the central dogma in cells!
The labs of Julia Mahamid
@embl and @RappsilberLab present the in situ structure of the transcribing-translating expressome. Glad we could contribute.
@DTegunov @WimJHH @JorgStulke "

Preprint: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.970111v1
https://twitter.com/CramerLab/status/1233697069753389057?s=20



https://twitter.com/CramerLab/status/1233697069753389057?s=20


This would relate directly to, which I've already shared with you:

"MIT: Coronavirus & the impact on global supply chains  https://insights.techreview.com/coronavirus-and-the-impact-on-global-supply-chains/ Curious re HOW & WHEN in #SupplyChain article & #Blockchain too re https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1232116756560465921?s=20& 'You 'https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University for 7.5bil p #WikidataQitem #WikidataPIN # could help w #CoronaVirusCovid19? "

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1233064398593216512?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1233065327652552704?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1233069157156978688?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1233064022771027968?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1233064752223420417?s=20


Fascinating too to learn from Synthetic Biologist Gerd Moe-Behrens of:

"Broad-spectrum antiviral GS-5734 inhibits both epidemic and zoonotic coronaviruses"

https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1233917375361306628?s=20
( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology )


Thanks to John Palfrey for:

"How Prepared Is the U.S. for a Coronavirus Outbreak?"

https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1233932284933410816?s=20
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-preparation-united-states.html


And could part of the molecular diagnostics involve everyone sequencing their own genome, beginning in the field in areas most affected by the #CoronaVirusCovid19 epidemic, eg Wuhan - in combination with an electron microscopes for diagnostics on our smart phones (thanks again to Harvard / MIT Professor of Genetics George Church) and streaming this data via the internet into avatar bot electronic medical records for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN # (re Wikidata's ~300 languages) with:

Congratulations Hesaam and team!
Small Sequencer Developer GenapSys Completes $90M Series C Financing
https://clinicalomics.com/news-and-features/small-sequencer-developer-genapsys-completes-90m-series-c-financing/



https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1199669550528258048?s=20


And for a little humor from the CDC, and from Rob Califf MD:

Hipsters, you have been notified. Here's the CDC facial hair & mask recommendations
https://cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/FacialHairWmask11282017-508.pdf
Robert M Califf @califf001 Feb 27
Good to see the Zappa made the cut. @dpatil



https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1232980867267596288?s=20


https://twitter.com/dpatil/status/1232696247003291648?s=20


Thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions?

All the best,
Scott

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (planning for all 7.5 billion people)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (each a major online MIT OCW-centric University in all ~200 countries' official / main languages)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning for all 7,111 known living languages)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR?src=hashtag_click


PS
The WHO site is proving increasingly helpful, communications-wise:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019


PPS
Following up further on the Coronavirus COVID-19 situation, here's a new mapping from the WHO (World Health Organization), which the named CEO of the WUaS Corp / Press (https://twitter.com/IuliuDumitrascu/status/1233448475309826048?s=20) just shared on Twitter. And it's data looks to be very similar to the Johns Hopkins' modeling:

WHO's Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/685d0ace521648f8a5beeeee1b9125cd
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
(https://twitter.com/IuliuDumitrascu/status/1233448475309826048?s=20)

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Am wary in an ongoing way of "Orientalism" (a kind of racism) in the representations of all this data, and here too - Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE ... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 (where its big red circles presently center on Hubei, mainland China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran) - but am also appreciative of all these new amazing opportunities for access to information! (which I also emailed about on 24 Feb 2020 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html -


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Are these germane: 

5 questions that the head of any of ~200 countries (in their main language) should probably address with regard to CoronaVirus Covid-19 ...

"Five questions Donald Trump must answer on coronavirus:
The president will address the US on Wednesday about the government’s response – which has so far been muddled"
Amanda Holpuch in New York @holpuch
Wed 26 Feb 2020 15.47 EST

And here's an amazing South Korean drive-through CoronaVirtusCOVID-19 testing station - https://twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1233400273013338112?s=20 - which I found on Prof. Greely's Twitter - https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU - and re-Tweeted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.

Have begun a new blog post with today's emails - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html - and in the 'genes' label too (and here's the previous blog post in these regards - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html). 

Thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions? 

All the best, 
Scott






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Trevor, N-tFN, Nontheist Friends, Atheist Quakers, and All, 

Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London from Saturday 28th – Sunday 29th March 2020 - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/02/28/annual-conference-2020-further-update/ - and for keeping us posted.

Will anyone from the USA or other countries be attending the conference? (Apologies but I can't make it this year).

In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html. (Methinks the divine / the spirit / or the light, or similar, won't do anything relating to creating a new vaccine for this for example, yet in a caring way, with NtFriendly concern, am curious too what will be successful approaches to dealing with this new CoronaVirus, - and come back to Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's recent Tweet (in blog post too) - 

https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3   Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one" - 


Thoughts, questions, ideas?

NtFriendly regards, Scott 


PS
This article which I just saw yesterday evening gives me great pause regarding B.S. - 

"The Uncomfortable Question of Bernie Sanders’s Life Expectancy
Studies suggest he has a 50/50 chance of dying in office if elected."
by Paul Glastris - February 28, 2020
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/02/28/the-uncomfortable-question-of-bernie-sanders-life-expectancy/

What do you think of the medical analysis? 

Glad the Boston Globe has endorsed Elizabeth Warren for President - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/26/opinion/globe-endorses-elizabeth-warren/ (with an interesting perspective on contemporary issues in this election) - and the NYTs too. I continue to think she's the best candidate, but don't know if she could win in this competitive presidential election. So am glad too Biden won S.C. - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/01/nation/joe-biden-wins-south-carolina-primary-propelling-him-into-super-tuesday/

I found too this Richard Dawkin's NYT's post germane: 


Warm regards, Scott



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