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I do remember reading about this: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/14/usda-approves-shipping-slaught.html
The US exports chicken and China imports chicken. Chinese chicken exports to the US are fairly unlikely
I had to go back a few pages to remember what you're tracking. Non-China infections. Keep up the good work, but it would help to put a title on it.
It really makes no sense at all. Chet’s drug is a monoclonal antibody targeting the chemokine coreceptor CCR5. That receptor is important in the binding of some HIV strains, but not any flavor of Coronavirus TMK. CCR5 is also found in certain types of cancer, and has a role in general inflammatory responses. So at best, Chet’s Coronavirus drug may lessen inflammation nonspecifically. I’d wager Remdesivir or protease inhibitors used for HIV will be more effective, as at least the mechanism of action is biologically plausible. But I ain’t holding my breath on any of them, as the virus mutates rapidly - similar to HIV, which requires multiple drugs simultaneously to control.
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I realize the RNA strand (?) type virus is known to mutate rapidly, but I thought I read somewhere this virus had rare a type of "spell check" to it during replication that inhibited mutation?
Unless COVID-19 evolved a proof-reading mechanism different from other coronaviruses, it mutates frequently and rapidly. I don’t pretend to know everything about COVID-19 virology, but that seems extremely unlikely.
i've been making some effort to avoid food from China for awhile. several weeks ago i was surprised to see some frozen fish at Aldi that said wild caught: USA processed: China
This article is pretty solid aside from a couple major flaws that reveal the writers agenda and lack of knowledge on the topic.
I don't pretend to know everything but I did read something that indicated it had exactly that, a rare proof-reading mechanism. This was at least a week back so it may have been fake news... but it was from a fairly reputable source.
Who has 30 whole dollars to spend on chicken?!!!
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I've smoked whole chicken, never just the thighs. I think I'll add that to my repertoire. Just the drumsticks or the whole thigh?Who has 30 whole dollars to spend on chicken?!!!
(I ####### love smoked chicken thighs, thanks for the heads up
Can you provide a link?
Thighs are independent of the drumstick and are, without a doubt, the most tender and flavorful part of the chicken. There is the added bonus that they're also the cheapest.
If I recalled where it was I'd have already provided it GB. I've read way too much on this damn bug. That's why I was asking if you knew about that alleged "feature".
Curious because I don’t know, and it may be still to early to tell for sure, but:
I was thinking of using them in a kebab/gyros style sandwich with the smoking as the initial cooking step before adding spices/marinade and some heaton like a searing surface of a kind. That would have to be deboned thighs, though (I can do that myself, just a bit of work).
I saw it as well. Will be able to dig for it later today. A Google News search for relevant terms should bring up some articles about it.
This is probably the week we start seeing lots of downstream effects of the shutdowns.
After a quick perusal of your posts in this thread, I can’t find anything supporting COVID-19 corrects genetic mutations, but I’m open to info suggesting otherwise.
Great. Strangely enough, my internet is painfully slow, with frequent crashes. Except for this site. Musta caught a virus somewhere.
I smoke them and then finish skin down in some butter in the cast iron to crisp up. Mm mmmm good.
Like I said It was a while back and something I had read in passing. But since you seem incapable of using Google...
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But coronaviruses have proofreading enzymes that make them more stable than other RNA viruses, says Mark Denison, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and coronavirologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. “They are certainly capable of change,” he says. “But in general once they’ve established a virus that works well, they stabilize that.” Additional changes are more likely to have no effect or to be detrimental to the virus’s success.
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There is no indication that this virus is becoming more dangerous, or changing much at all
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My memory of it -- which I want to double-check -- is not that the error-correction mechanism prevents mutation altogether. Rather, any individual mutation is simply made less likely, less chaotic.
I can use google, thanks. As I said, my internet connection is terrible, so searches are painfully slow. Thanks for the info though.
Not really. I believe the same was true of the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic -- my then-three-year-old son caught it and was only mildly sick. Anecdote is not data, of course.
