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

Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by buboard on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:32AM (#22813262)

and how would we know that the harmless-virus infection protects against the dangerous strain?

are there already databases of sequenced strains?

and how would the regulatory aspect work? if the harmless individual is no longer infectious, how would people be infected

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Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention? by danieltillett on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @12:33PM (#22814467)

1. You would check the person’s immune response. With luck they have infect a pool of people in the local area which should give you more data.

2. Yes there are, but we need to look for a quite rare mutant.

3. We would be genome sequencing clinical samples - these would be kept in storage until the data comes back.

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