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Peter Lederman in Second Bout With COVID-19

I saw on Facebook late last night that Mike Fremer told one of his Audio Friends that he heard from Peter Lederman of Soundsmith that he is suffering his second round with COVID.  Peter said he has blood clots on his lungs. That is all the post said.  Here is hoping that Peter pulls through with a full recovery. 
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rpeluso
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MC, please see the attached; this virus has a polyphasic cleavage site of 5 arginines (furin substrate), and two are encoded by CGG.  

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC391999/pdf/pnas00622-0148.pdf
rpeluso
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What??  Where is this coming from?  Or, from where is this coming? Either works.  But still, what??
rpeluso
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Well, some of us, maybe more than a few, ARE.  I am a PhD in virology, worked (retired now) for a huge international pharmaceutical company; in vaccine development.  Lew is one too.  Scientist I mean.  
rpeluso
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Iso, the mRNA vaccines contain:

-the purified synthetic mRNA encoding the COVID surface glycoprotein
-4 lipids; one is cholesterol, one is phosphatidyl choline, one is a cationic lipid that helps the lipid nanoparticle deliver the mRNA to the cytoplasm/ribosomes, and one is a PEG lipid.
 -There are the usual salts, pH buffers, maybe a few sugars.  

But that is it.  
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