This article provides an overview of virus mutations, the current variants from the UK and South Africa, how the immune system works on pathogen proteins, and whether all this has implications on the efficacy of the current vaccines.
Mutations
Mutations are a fact of life for all living beings. Viruses, due to many reasons (generation rate in hours, infecting millions of cells, ...), have a very fast mutation rate. That is just what goes on.
Users on social media have been sharing news that China is using Anal Swabs for detecting Coronavirus infections. While this is true, it seems that this will not be applied to everyone being tested.
These anal swabs are soaked in saline, and inserted into the anus and rotated.
In addition to ACE2, there are other receptors that either facilitate entry into cells (making the virus more infectious) or increase its pathogenicity (causing more severe symptoms).
Donald Trump does not care for science. Any science ...
When the California minister for the environment confronted him with some facts about Climate Change, he said "It will start getting cooler ... you just watch". The minister said: "I wish science agreed with you". Trump's response? "I don't think science knows, actually ..."
For those wondering what is QAnon, and why it is so nefarious, here is an overview.
What Is QAnon: A collection of bizarre claims
QAnon is an unfounded conspiracy theory claiming that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Donald Trump.
Here are a few videos that demonstrate the board and what it can do:
FYSETC S6 version 1.2 basic setup, with only the RA and DEC axes connected, as well as a WeMos D1 Mini WiFi adapter. Demonstrated with the KStars planetarium.
Slashdot is a news web site for technology and nerds alike that has been active for over two decades.
The site changed ownership a few times. The current owners employed young moderators who were not around when the site was still privately owned and managed by the same team who created it.
One glaring example of the disconnect between the current moderators, and the site's history is the total ignorance on what the icons and logs attached to stories mean.
Times have change, and OpenWRT has evolved. With the current stable version (19.07.3), syslog-ng is no longer the preferred method. Instead, I have found that rsyslog works better. In this article, I describe how to install and configure rsyslog.
The new moon for the month of Shawwal 1441 AH has only been sighted in several countries in Africa.
For example, Mauritania claimed that declaring the end of Ramadan, and the start of Eid Al Fitr was based on multiple confirmed sighting, also claiming that the number of witnesses exceeds 40 people, in various places in the country.
The same thing happened in Senegal, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, and Somalia.
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