Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention?

Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by danieltillett on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:36AM (#22811957)

Yes this is true, but it has nothing to do with finding an attenuated strain. I addressed this in my post and yes many people who have a mild symptoms are infected with a dangerous strain, but an attenuated strain will only cause mild symptoms. If you want to find an attenuated strain you have to look in people with mild symptoms.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by certera on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:41AM (#22813903)

> If you want to find an attenuated strain you have to look in people with mild symptoms

Shouldn't we be looking at people with no symptoms? I know this is not ideal as we're likely only testing symptomatic people.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by danieltillett on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:04PM (#22814774)

Yes we want to test asymptomatic people too. Some countries like Germany and South Korea are doing are better job of testing widely and so they have many more mild/asymptomatic samples that can be screened.

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