– An Italian in the time of coronavirus. From 5 days ago in Verona in Veneto.
– British scientist in Shanghai talks coronavirus. A British geneticist I know who works and lives in Shanghai. Two days ago.
Patreon here, but perhaps more important share the podcasts.
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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Thanks Razib. Good Work.
It is too late to advise them not to shut everything down. Where I live, they have closed all of the schools and all of the bars and restaurants.
Fortunately, I have a case of Johnny Walker Black in the basement.
Yogi is encouraging consumption and merchandizing of cow piss and dung in UP to ward of corona wtf
Hey Razib, First, thanks for your good work . I heard two of those podcasts and found them quite interesting. But Covid19 is a topic which for me is difficult to get a clear picture. So I would like to hear your opinion to this:
In Germany there is one visible expert (Wolfgang Wodarg) who says, that at the moment there is no scientific foundation to this panic because:
1. in this season the excess mortality is relatively low this season; cf:
https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html
2. that in the last years there always were corona viruses involved in 5 to 15 percent of acute respiratory disorder cases, cf
all from
https://www.wodarg.com/
3. that it is not clear if the tests test only for Sars-Cov-2 or also for other corona viruses, which in Europe are distributed with an expectation of 5 to 15 percent
4. that the collapse of the Italian hospital system is mostly a result of the panic and not so much of a higher number of acute cases.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-covid19-india-tuberculosis-public-health/607963/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo
good read
“India Shows That Developing a Coronavirus Treatment Isn’t Enough
The country’s experience combatting tuberculosis highlights that there are other significant hurdles to overcome.”
@razib
sorry if this isn’t super relevant to the post above, but the open thread seems to be inundated with comments so
In my evo anthropology class, I am often reminded of the idea that Natural selection acts only on the level of the gene and not any other level. Is this the scientific consensus, or is this just politicking science?
for biology it’s gene. for cultue, it may act at level of group
Fortunately, I stockpiled a month-long supply of cow urine and dung.
What happened to the Jeremy Carl podcast?
I downloaded it and listened to it. I liked it and wanted to send the link to my brother.