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PhD in Space Physics. Hobbyist SARS-CoV-2 lineage hunter. I will block trolls, misinformers, and disinformers at my personal discretion.
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Actor Matt McGorry busting COVID myths on Instagram. This video is also apparently available on X and TikTok. www.instagram.com/reel/DGDttsl...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

American workers need to realize they’ve been sold lies, the American left needs to learn to exercise forgiveness and grace, and American Christians need to realize they’ve strayed far from the Gospel. For this all to happen, America may have to hit rock bottom.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Is “there is nothing we can do about it, so we might as well accept it” fatalism about COVID the gateway drug to “there is nothing we can do about it, so we might as well accept it” fatalism about fascism?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

SARS-CoV-2 lineage LP.8.1 (KP.1.1.3.8.1; JN.1.11.1.1.1.3.8.1) has been designated Clade 25A by Nextstrain github.com/nextstrain/n.... (1/3)

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

For my SARS-CoV-2 variant hunter and tracker friends and anyone else who is interested, I’ve just created a GitHub repository github.com/alurqu/sars-... for my files of which mutations occur at least 50% of the time in a lineage as found by my search code.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

CoV-Spectrum has been fixed and, for the first time since December 23, has new data. LP.8.1.1 now leads #Collection42 cov-spectrum.org/collections/42 (and has 293 sequences.) XEK.4 and XEK.1.1 are next with under 100 sequences but with mutations at S:680 next to LP.8.1.1’s S:679R. 1/2

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

For those interested in how SARS-CoV-2 is evolving, I found this paper to be interesting: Furnon et al, “Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 spike during the COVID-19 pandemic”, Nature Microbiology, www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some of my notes about this paper: (1/13)

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Increased SARS-CoV-2 viral replication and pathogenesis due to a mutation in NSP6 (Non-Structural Protein 6): It’s a pathway I had not previously considered, but this is a good example of why SARS-CoV-2 mutations outside the Spike can be important and are worth watching. x.com/ttaha801/sta...

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

I’m seeing some debate over COVID levels in the US are high or low, so here’s a series of US nationwide and regional SARS-CoV-2 wastewater chart screenshots I just took from data.wastewaterscan.org. First, the US National chart. 1/5

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

New SARS-CoV-2 lineages have been designated. One of them, XEK.4, shows an eye-popping global growth advantage on #Collection42 cov-spectrum.org/collections/42. Be careful. This is still a small lineage with most samples from Ontario, so the growth advantage is likely a mirage.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

submitted 75 days ago • 950 comments