SARS-CoV-2
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 13, 2020 by Balaji Srinivasan · across every show →
Everything said about SARS-CoV-2, oldest first
Mar 13, 2020
Srinivasan: Diagnostic PCR and sequencing are standard tech, contagion is main testing hurdle
“People have been doing RT-PCR, and they've been doing sequencing on aluminum machines for basically a decade plus at this point. The main difficulty here is that the SARS-CoV-I virus is very contagious and dangerous, so you need to be even more careful with sa…”
Mar 13, 2020
Asymptomatic spread removes evolutionary pressure for COVID-19 to become less lethal
“Now, sometimes, often, viruses evolve to be less lethal and more contagious because, you know, like, if you, if it's like Ebola and somebody dies in a pool of blood, then, you know, they don't spread it very far, right?
The Ebola virus actually sort of, it ki…”
Mar 13, 2020 negative
CDC's early COVID-19 PCR test failed due to bugs across three loci
“The actual CDC test looks at this, not just for one locus, but for three loci, meaning three different spots on the virus's genome. One of those spots, I believe, is for all coronavirus, and two loci are specific to this SARS-CoV-CoV-II virus, the virus that c…”
Mar 13, 2020 positive
Srinivasan: Naming COVID-19 abstractly rather than 'Wuhan flu' avoids harmful regional stigma
“Didn't want to stigmatize a region by calling it like the Wuhan flu or the China flu. Like Reddit has a community called the China flu. That's not helpful for lots of reasons you know, like That area is hard enough hit. You don't want to hit it like, you know,…”