{"id":6903,"date":"2020-10-13T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2020-10-13T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:02:01","slug":"scientists-have-a-powerful-new-tool-for-controlling-the-coronavirus-its-own-genetic-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=6903","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have a powerful new tool for controlling the coronavirus: Its own genetic code."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Just as with testing, the nation has failed to lead when it comes to using genome sequencing to track the coronavirus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/health\/coronavirus-genetic-code\/\">Scientists have a powerful new tool for controlling the coronavirus: Its own genetic code.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One interesting takeaway: not likely that transmission at population-levels (countries, isolated regions, etc.) aren&#8217;t likely a single person brought it event.\u00a0 England used sequencing to determine ~1300 different sources, and mostly from Europe, not Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In one instance,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/british-clampdown-on-non-essential-travel-came-a-week-too-late\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">researchers discovered<\/a>\u00a0that coronavirus was brought into the United Kingdom on at least 1,300 separate occasions \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/british-clampdown-on-non-essential-travel-came-a-week-too-late\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obliterating the notion<\/a> that a single carrier had triggered the nation\u2019s initial outbreak and showing just how easily the virus slipped through airports and across borders in the early days of the pandemic. The analysis also found that the vast majority of those early cases arrived from Spain and other European countries, rather than from China, where the pandemic began.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as with testing, the nation has failed to lead when it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,140,22,72],"class_list":["post-6903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-paul","tag-science","tag-usa-usa-usa","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}