There’s a hardware store at 20th and Pine (Rittenhouse Hardware). Not that close, but a great small store. May C&R on Washington as well?

Well done more than doubling your earnings

Probability of prevention was in the 20-50% range according to the paper. Nothing is 100% perfect, and individual anecdotes don’t supersede careful experimentation.

The paper is open access so click the PDF link and read it.

I’m a HUGE fan of basic research. What I dislike is overhyped conclusions.

“While these two viruses are in a viral lineage distinct from SARS-CoV-1 and -2, the RBD from one virus, Khosta 2, was capable of using human ACE2 to facilitate cell entry. Viral pseudotypes with a recombinant, SARS-CoV-2 spike encoding for the Khosta 2 RBD were resistant to both SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies and serum from individuals vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2.”

It’s not very interesting to randomly test the cross reactivity of antibodies to unrelated viruses. It’s much more important to understand the receptor:RBD dynamics. As a former journal editor at a different journal, I’m surprised this got into PLoS Pathogens.

A distantly related virus that happens to use the same receptor isn’t neutralized by CoV-2 antibodies. How is this a big deal, especially when Omicron is resistant to many monoclonals?

Just like nuclear energy, there’s good and nefarious potential with this technology.

Magic Gardens. You can sign up to spend a few hours working with the guy on a current project in the neighborhood