Raina McIntyre
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581 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2021
Raina McIntyre’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, no doubt there would be some reporting that happened later.
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It's also felt that initially they had quite a tight case definition that only included pneumonia and that might have led to the apparent, you know, unchanging numbers so they weren't including milder cases in counting at the beginning.
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Well, the genetic data actually does give some clue that the virus probably jumped species from an animal to human in about November or December.
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They look at the evolution and they put it on a phylogenetic tree and compare it to which is like an evolutionary tree, uh and then they compare it to other related viruses.
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It seems to have arisen from that market.
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The interesting thing is that they took about five hundred environmental samples from the market and thirty five of them were positive for the virus, but not in the parts where the wild animals were sold, from what I understand, but in the seafood section.
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The experts feel maybe it's got something to do with the water rather than fish.
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It's very unlikely to have come from
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Fish.
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Nobody knows.
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Just that the surfaces were contaminated.
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Not very quickly.
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It is an RNA virus, which do tend to mutate more than the DNA viruses, but coronaviruses are fairly slow to mutate, and that's certainly confirmed by the genetic picture.
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No, that's a different matter.
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Um, we don't actually have a good handle on the mortality rate and the infection rate, especially not the infection rate.
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There's been varied estimates of the mortality rate from two to eleven percent depending on which estimates and which studies you look at, but the data are still not very complete.
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There's a range of different coronaviruses, some of which only affect animals and some which affect humans and animals.
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The most common coronaviruses that affect humans just cause a common cold.
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But there's been two severe ones that have jumped from animal to human in the past and those are SARS and Lose Coronavirus.
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And now there's this third virus.
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