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I lived above a kebab shop when I was a student. Likewise.I lived above a launderette when I was in Oxford and it was a life saver.
I lived above a kebab shop when I was a student. Likewise.I lived above a launderette when I was in Oxford and it was a life saver.
Some people don't have space for a washing machine, or live in shared accommodation where one isn't provided.
How bizarre - if it was supposed to be some kind of thing to do with nightlife, I'm not sure what that's got to do with Harrods of all places.Hundreds of maskless young people ‘try to storm Harrods’
Huge crowds of maskless people were seen gathering outside luxury department store Harrods, in Knightsbridge, London on Saturday.metro.co.uk
“...many appeared to be dressed for a night out.”
Have there been any more reports of people catching it twice?
How bizarre - if it was supposed to be some kind of thing to do with nightlife, I'm not sure what that's got to do with Harrods of all places.
Most of the crowd in that incident were travellers, I think describing their dress as such was meant to be a way of implying that.
Science article said:David Baltimore, a virologist at the California Institute of Technology who won the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering RT, describes the new work as “impressive” and the findings as “unexpected” but he notes that Jaenisch and colleagues only show that fragments of SARS-CoV-2’s genome integrate. “Because it is all pieces of the coronaviral genome, it can’t lead to infectious RNA or DNA and therefore it is probably biologically a dead end,” Baltimore says. “It is also not clear if, in people, the cells that harbor the reverse transcripts stay around for a long time or they die. The work raises a lot of interesting questions.”
Zandrea Ambrose, a retrovirologist at the University of Pittsburgh, adds that this kind of integration would be “extremely rare” if it does indeed happen. She notes that LINE-1 elements in the human genome rarely are active. “It is not clear what the activity would be in different primary cell types that are infected by SARS-CoV-2,” she says.
I won't mention that she works for the Met, then...a trip which was not permitted under the existing Tier 3 restrictions of course.
I don’t remember which thread we were discussing it in, but there was discussion of the possible interaction of ACEIs (angiotensin conversion enzyme inhibitors - blood pressure control drugs) and other similar medicines with covid infections, given ACE2 is the target of both the drug and the virus.
Just published metaanalysis suggests no effect on infection rates or severity https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30289-2/fulltext which is good news.