Virus in sentence

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For those of you who aren't familiar with memetics, a meme has been defined as an idea that replicates in the human brain and moves from brain to brain like a virus, much like a virus.

Instead of a novel virus caused by bio-terror or bio-error, or shift or drift, we find it and we contain it.

Ham Smith and Clyde Hutchison, my colleagues on this, developed an exciting new method that allowed us to synthesize a 5,000-base pair virus in only a two-week period that was 100 percent accurate, in terms of its sequence and its biology.

So in the general population, it's likely that the dose of virus that you receive when you are infected is much less than the dose that a health worker would receive, health workers having more serious infections.

This is an infection that's coming to humans who have never been exposed to this virus before.

They don't have any antibody protection, and it's not clear whether their immune system can handle this virus or not.

This is a virus that usually finds itself in bats or in other animals, and all of a sudden, it's in humans.

And humans just don't have experience with this virus.

So it's a much less virulent virus, but it's still a virus that causes mortality, and that's what we don't want entering human populations.

That research requires first that the vaccine be developed, then that it be studied for safety and effectiveness in animals, who are challenged with the virus after they are vaccinated, and then it must go into human studies.

And so that would require, of the opportunities that could spread the virus so these kind of close contacts, everybody in the population, on average, will be needing to reduce those interactions potentially by two-thirds to bring it under control.

I don't think it's the case that you're sitting a few meters away from someone and the virus is somehow going to get across.

Because if you imagine that's where you can get a virus out and onto surfaces and onto hands and onto faces, and it's really situations like that we've got to think more about.

The smallest virus, on the other hand, is about 25 nanometers.

We've given a virus that moves exponentially a two-month head start.

I mean, there's so much puzzling information still out there about this virus.

LB: So I think the kind of equation to keep in mind is that the virus moves dependent on three major issues.

One is the R0, the first number of secondary cases that there are when the virus emerges.

So for argument's sake, let's say that the virus is moving at exponential speed and the exponent is somewhere between 2.2 and 5.7.

This is a novel virus, so we want to know how many customers could it potentially have.

The world is facing a virus that looks at all of us like equally susceptible.

We need to slow down the speed of this virus, which is why we do social distancing.

It really requires competent governance, a sense of seriousness, and listening to the scientists, not the politicians following the virus.

We created a virus that killed a lot more than this one did.

But we made that movie deliberately to show what a real pandemic looked like, but we did choose a pretty awful virus.

To the virus, we're not.

While the quest for new antibiotics is for our medium-term future, the novel coronavirus poses an immediate deadly threat, and I'm excited to share that we think we can use the same technology to search for therapeutics to fight this virus.

For the COVID-19 pandemic, we're designing RNA sensors to detect the virus and freeze-drying these along with the needed cellular machinery into the fabric of a face mask, where the simple act of breathing, along with the water vapor that comes with it, can activate the test.

With peaks and valleys, folds and rifts, there are plenty of hiding places for a virus to stick.

If you then touch your face, the virus can infect you.

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