An academically dense report, we'll initially excerpt for autopsy, because it resonates with Alzheimer's classic first autopsy and with kuru, recalling that Gajdusek did not require a stethoscope to hear kuru-infected Yakurimba's heart rub, 3 to 4 feet out from the body:
Jun 2020 Pakistan, Massachusetts / Neuroinvasive COVID-19
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Scientists and clinicians must acknowledge that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has the potential to attack the human body in multiple ways simultaneously and exploit any weaknesses...
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'....The majority of initial published and available reports from China involving autopsy, predominantly focused on procedure safety with scarce actual autopsy and pathology reports. Remarkably, only one full autopsy report was identified and able to be accessed in the full text during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Even after the spread of COVID-19 in U.S. and Europe, with hundreds of deaths daily, autopsy examinations were not routinely performed and crucial data on organ involvement, and the CNS in particular, remained uninvestigated.
Notably, China has had markedly more time than the rest of the world to perform clinical investigations and autopsy examinations. Despite this advantage, there was an initial paucity of published autopsy and pathology reports on the CNS. Physicians and scientists from China have been vocal about their recommendations and need for more data. Dr. Bin Cong, physician and dean of Hubei Medical University School of Forensic Medicine, published a paper in Feb 2020 requesting to strengthen the use of autopsy to better comprehend COVID-19. Dr. Hujun Wang, physician and chief expert in forensic medicine at Southern Medical University, also recognized the need of pathologic data on patients with COVID-19 to better understand the infection.'
Interestingly, Wang is speaking up during the same month that COVID-19 mutated, and so the headache symptom coupled to reinfection from Tuva (previous post) may have genetic implications that link to neuroinvasiveness. Further, Trump recently calls for convalescent plasma, and this links to the precise mutation, D614G, an aspartic acid to glycine mutation. We immediately intuit some of its primitivity: the glycine of the Miller-Urey volcanic spark experiment of 1959:
COVID-19 Mutation D614G / Convalescent Plasma
SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolates encoding a D614G mutation in the viral spike (S) protein predominate over time in locales where it is found, implying that this change enhances viral transmission. We therefore compared the functional properties of the S proteins with aspartic acid (S...
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