Hi there, Seekers! If you have recovered from COVID-19 and are in the Los Angeles area, contact Dr. Otto Yang at OYang@mednet.ucla.edu to get involved. For anyone outside LA, please reach out to your nearest academic medical center. As always, thanks for watching.
I believe I got it. It figuratively slapped me in the face with a wet paper towel then left. I haven't been able to smell anything at all for a month. And I don't have allergies or get sick. I'd love to help........but I live in Ohio.
At 4:24 you got a fact wrong. The WHO never offered us tests because they only offered those tests to countries that did not have labs capable of producing their own tests. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/16/joe-biden/biden-falsely-says-trump-administration-rejected-w Additionally, the CDCs policy was wrong-headed and based on what the FDA said (www.propublica.org/article/the-fda-is-forcing-the-cdc-to-waste-time-double-testing-some-coronavirus-cases). You didn't get the second thing wrong, and I don't think the context here is hugely critical. It would be nice if you would issue a correction for the false information, because I think the detail you got wrong is really important to people's understanding of our response. We have very few news outlets actually reporting correct information about these things, and I think it's absolutely vital that the information about this be 100% correct so people can make good decisions, even if they might not be the decisions some people might want them to make. Our information ecology has become so poisoned that nobody trusts it anymore, and I think, over time, that is a more deadly problem than COVID-19 is right now. Please be a part of making it better.
This test is a fraud. The entire situation is the blackest crime that has ever been attempted to be perpetrated against the human race in human history.Don't think were falling for this. Not in a Goddamn minute. You want to turn us into human robots ! ! !
Dr. Otto Yang, thanks for the information. About the ELISA test for COVID-19 antibodies, this test can determine the quantity of immunity IgG has a person in his/her body? Based in the SARS-CoV-1 the immunity time of a patient recovered lasted 1-2 years, so my suggest is to make this COVID-19 antibodies test every 3-4 months so the Medical community can make studies and monitor the ones that in the antibodies test results with immunity for COVID-19
Its one thing to not get your facts right. But to not see the importance of correcting them does great damage to your credibility. Hence, I call BULLSHIT.
South Korea finished testing its entire population a couple months ago. Here in the US, our government is tripping over its own feet, due to years of corruption and incompetence, while its own citizens are left standing here with our dicks in the breeze. The US once lead the world in both science and infrastructure. Now we are failing at every possible juncture, while the rest of the world sails on by. I'm ashamed of what my country's government has become, and I am ashamed of my fellow countrymen, that have let this happen.
I feel you brother I'm ashamed as well... but it's time for action and we need everybody we can gather. Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of the things you didn't do before it comes.
What is your honest opinion on the danger of the Coronavirus? How busy is the hospital you work in and are the majority of those admitted suffering symptoms of the virus?
@@davekennedy6315 I am sure this varries place to place round the world because there are other pandemics still going on besides this mutated cold virus pandemic.
Yep - a test that specifically isolates a specific virus, err, would surely be a familar blood-test style thing, not this mysterious swab thing. In the uk, a testing company that has been con-script-ed by the government, used to be a DNA testing company for the Jeremy Kyle Show (uk version of Jerry Springer)1 Wtf!
Too see how it spreads and thereby see where, how the numbers (people) increase or decrease. They can then deside if or when schools reopen and in what manner. Logical, isnt it?
Schools aren't closed in australia. Gatherings of more than 2 people are banned, but 800 students in a school is apparently completely fine, with about 20 students to a room (That's our government for ya...)
Thank you for explaining specific, verifiable examples of where our response went wrong without trying to score political points. People can draw what conclusions they may, and that's fine. I wish all reporting were done this way.
With the number of people in health care that unfortunately have fallen ill with this disease in the course of doing their heroic duties, there should be a colossal number of people readily available that are willing to give a bit of their blood to the cause. I do not imagine those courageous, dedicated people turning down this opportunity.
They definately have a liberal bias, but they don't seem to try to consciously slant their information. I don't know enough about this subject to say they are right or wrong on anything, but I've heard some information that seems to be at odds with what this video seems to hint at on a few specific things.
@@johnhoffay9081 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IV-8YsyghbU.html What is real. Let's cut to the chase. I love our planet, all of humanity, and everything in Gods' Creation, and I love God, The Ineffable, our Creator, first and foremost and above all else and with my whole being. To continue, I intellectually love Mathematics. I love Art & Culture. I like living in a Civilization - of some sort at least. I intellectually LOVE Science and the true Emperical Scientific Method - and some other stuff too. First, I am a Philosopher, before I'm a Scientist, or an Artist. But, it's one and the same thing, and I am intimately connected with all. I am postulating that Science without Philosophy is just Physics; or a one sided coin, an anomaly by definition. I believe in Human Dignity and by extension, the freedom of Speech and Thought and Debate. Words can't do any physical harm. I abhor aggression and violence, in any form, seeing through the fear, behind that. Do I ' believe' in Science? Absolutely not. Do I blindly believe and trust all science, and all the actual physical scientists engaged in this occupation? Of course not. And I would hope, neither does the majority of global adults - hopefully :-0 Or, has Physics 'won' the day and is now the official Religious and State Tyranny? Asking people to believe in Science, without intelligent questioning, or debate - even when Scientists differ greatly amongst themselves, on any subject, all the time - is quite surreal, really, at least from my perspective. Is Science always right? Could Science, or money, ever be more right than the true value and dignity of a human? How ' real' do you judge me to be? (Rhetorical questions) LOVE & LIGHT ALL IS ONE
I wouldn’t say it was an eternity, around 4 years for the initial FDA release of antiviral first stage. And most of that time period was spent on all the political red tape of releasing the drug. For the record I worked as an administrator @ DHHS/NIH in DC metro just a few years ago and also worked with FDA in Rockiville Md while still in college
Probably, but quantum computing isn't the magic solution to all computational problems. From what I understand, there are problems they will solve in seconds where regular computers will need years and tasks they are even slower at. Don't know which though.
'Future virus cases'? Thought this was 'once in a lifetime'? Seems you may have been spelled by the govern-media mono-narrative, 'the new normal', chanelled on all channels by the media mediums. Witchcraft hype-gnosis. The old 'normal' was pretty insane, this is the age of deception.
@@GK-qc5ry They were never in my world of taking tiny risks and being blessed. And I go outside into the big 'dangerous' real world of heaven-on-earth, with the other 'barbarians'. Or maybe they were and they didn't go for me, sensing I don;t poo my pants and buy bog-roll to clean it up. If you wanna hide from the overall global deathrate that isnt fluctuating, that's your life. Seems like you chose the brave new world order, now being advertised.
lmao, pretty similar here in the us. though its less shameful and more that it's too much of a risk to actually go out, not the mention the limited number of testing kits.
You can't just scream pandemic for every virus that spreads. If you do this too often, people will not take it seriously (boy crying wolf etc). Didn't you read all those comments on here stating that this is not a pandemic and completely harmless, stating the WHO fucked up in 2009 with the swine flu, where they rang the bell too soon and nothing happened? This is a very thin line they walk on.
When WHO said test, test and test. We (Indians) followed isolation, isolation and isolation (ICMR Guideline) . You guys can see the results in India. We have very less patients compared to other countries w.r.t population.
zer0Bot 54 year old gay man & an IV using drug addict in recovery here. I lived through the AIDS crisis, when there was no treatment, when we were afraid to even touch those we love... so SO many parallels - except this affects everyone, not just gay men, IV using drug addicts and haemophiliacs. I’ve heard so many saying “we need to learn...” blah blah blah - I’m not holding my breath!
HIV treatments were slow to develop because the conservative government deliberately decreased funding for a cure because they didn't care about human lives.
Saliva tests from a new Yale study are showing to be more accurate even serially. This is what we need. They are easier to administer. No spraying. No swabs required and no deep down invasive nasal sample which may not hit the same area twice. Silva tests are the key.
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@@Scientastica true. Bats are given such blame but really the cold viruse has been around forever. Of course it has mutated several times. It is sad there isn't a vaccine for all viruses to wipe out like small pox. Instead many anti vaxxers exist and disease denialist, and bogus cure all con artists.
On Jan 30 2020 the head of the WHO said "First, there is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade. WHO doesn’t recommend limiting trade and movement." He was wrong.
yeah well to be fair he was walking a incredibly thin line. too early and if it turned out to be nothing it would cheapen the pandemic title and disrupt the economy and society all for nothing. too late and he would be attacked like you are now. personally, i think he did the best he could with what the resources he had - he couldn't have predicted the future, after all.
A precursor to ELISA, radioimmunoassay, was developed in 1959, chiefly by a post-doc Jewish woman name Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, along with a collaborator Solomon Berson. It essentially worked to reveal trace quantities of various substances just like its successor ELISA does now, but employed radioactive elements in the discrimination process. Rosalyn and Solomon could have become vastly wealthy as a result of their discovery. They instead opted not to patent it, and released it to the world (knowing the pronounced good it would do). To you, Rosalyn and Berson! Just as to you, Frederick Banting and Charles Best! (Latter chose not to patent their commercial insulin, opting instead to gift it to the world). As a researcher in training, should my labours ever happen to bear fruit of similar renown, I will be uncompromising in my following in their altruistic lead.
But that was done by Brazilian scientists agencia.fapesp.br/technology-used-to-sequence-coronavirus-in-brazil-will-enable-scientists-to-monitor-epidemic-in-real-time/32656/
Would someone be able to explain to my why the CDC didn't accept the test kits from the WHO and decided to wait to create their own? To me, it sounds like a complete case of ego on the part of the CDC. Or did the CDC have valid reasons?
I guess they want to support their own scientists? It's probably economic reasons or mistrust (unnecessary). Trump does support American made tests though, although I'm not sire they are very good...
Both are very sensitive. How specific they are depends though. If you make a test that is triggered by several different coronaviruses, suddenly you will have false positives for SARS-2. If someone has antibodies to some part of the virus that isn't in the ELISA, you will have a false negative, etc.
PCR tests sometimes can sometimes be false negative, if the virus went down. This is why they need to get another test that will show if they have been infected.
Your pcr animation is wrong Dna is not just double stranded rna, and rna is not just single stranded rna. Reverse traancriptase makes 2 dna strands 1 from rna and the other from the synthesised dna strabd.
You can't just scream pandemic for every virus that spreads. If you do this too often, people will not take it seriously (boy crying wolf etc). Didn't you read all those comments on here stating that this is not a pandemic and completely harmless, stating the WHO fucked up in 2009 with the swine flu, where they rang the bell too soon and nothing happened? This is a very thin line they walk on.
I can't buy a CV test around me...3 weeks ago, the clinics were doing Testing Drives, like blood drives....now you can only get a test if youre a first responder or medical staff....OR if you have a fever over 101°f I have a nasty cough, and I am obviously sick...but without a fever they won't test me....
He also says vaccines cause autism while saying to get vaccines in smaller doses. Best thing to do is aak doctors and scientists rather than celebrities and politocians bipartisan. Really never ask a cultist religious leader or tin fpil hat faith healing cure alls con artist either.
@@JustAnNPC69 yea actually, you can go look back in January when trump blocked travel from China. And the WHO and cnn and msnbc and basically everyone else started their typical "racism " chant. You people are stupid, you watch or listen to 1 thing and pretend you're educated on the subject. Try a little thing called cross referencing.
Jorge Araujo, former lead supervisor in Merck’s vaccine Department, along with several of his colleagues decided not to vaccinate their own children, because of bad science and Corruption.🍓🍓🍓
I really want to participate in Antibody-trials I had it, and out of the time frame (1st and 2nd week of January) I should of for where I live (Berlin), I know a cluster of people. I've had lung/inflammation problems since childhood and a history of joint problems, but am otherwise in very fit shape (my bloodwork is pristine at the last check-up and I exercise 4-7 days a week in addition to a job with healthy cardio)...I've never had a respiratory problem like this before. I was so exhausted from not being able to breathe right, my lips were blue at times, deep bone pain, so much confusion I didn't even remember the GI stuff till we were watching a symptoms video and my partner said I was in and out of the bathroom during the peak and she had to walk my 80kg the 10 feet with her 40kg. I had other neurological stuff that I now realise was oxygen deprivation (e.g. siezure-like tremors; I've a neuroscience and cog-neuropsych background), I thought they were just weird panic attacks at the time, but I obviously wasn't all there to think straight about it. We didn't go to the doctor, there was no talk of corona in Germany at the time and we are americans so we have the private-health-care baggage that's all to common amongst american-expats (they don't go to the doctor). I wish we would have gone to the doctor. Today I can still feel the reduced lung-capacity when I run. I've contacted WHO, I don't know who to contact in Berlin though and I imagine WHO is busy... I'm gonna contact and call these: bioscience.ucla.edu/faculty/otto-yang www.uclahealth.org/otto-yang
Testing all the population is a mammoth task .................. may we come up with a better and more efficient plan in time. Till then stay home, stay safe. Hope that we resume to our normal lives and defeat CoViD-19 as soon as possible.
becoz Saudi Arabia played dirty with Iran. NO ONE LIKES TRAITORS no matter how manny ''good-will'' evidences America will pull out. By the way americans are NOT most renown for their brightness
Seems like the best time to find antibodies would be during the period where the person is still sick, but is getting better. Before that, they might have no antibodies for the illness. After that, it seems like they might only have memory cells (fewer cells). It seems like there would be many people at that stage in hospitals right now (past the worst phase of the illness, but not so far past it that only memory cells for the virus remain). Thanks all medical workers, researchers, and people providing essentials during this.
I don't understand what's the benefit of indiscriminate testing? I agree you detect an infection at early stage, but what next? In any case your medical infrastructure will get overwhelmed. Social distancing and lockdown is the only option for now.
Makes you wonder why they would need to touch the most direct method to put chemicals into your brain to test you for a virus that is replicating in your blood stream readily......could be swabbing mouths.....if we're so sure its contracted from just breathing shouldnt we be able just to test our breathe? Somethings fishy......real putrid fishy
The problem with this channel is that it doesnot uploads more intresting contents but all the other spcs are really awesome like the cgi and presentation please just include more intresting contents
Not so long ago, the backend was programmed as the front too it was a very slow and expensive job, today much cheaper sites can be developed and quickly thanks to automation. Now with Elementor you can develop the front end and even design interactive animations, like, motion effects, with that avoiding the difficult and slow task that programming involves, today everything can be done with pagbuilders in a much faster and more economical way, the WebGL with these systems can create from a simple web page in an interactive three-dimensional environment, the same can be applied in biology, this is exactly what Autodesk is doing the issue that from what I see they are slow when it comes to taking the market the software that creates the simulations necessary to cure the coronavirus as quickly and easily as possible this can be done with syntetic biology, if it is digital the biology interactions con be made, and if humans have the avility to interact with the most beauful graphic interface without the need of slow programming to achieve the interactive simultaions, this can be done, this is the most imortant revolution of humans i ever saw, this can rapidley cure coronavirus ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2WO-jAHNURA.html
I used to think seeker was a good source of information, and watched a lot of your videos... but the fact that you can make a video that puts Tedros or the WHO in anything but horrible light makes me think your information isnt trustworthy.
@@airlinena So in order to try and make a point about how I'm stupid, you rant like a crazy person and say nothing of substance? Something about my moms basement? Lol what? If someone that had no idea about any of this just happened to glance at this interaction, which one of us do you think is going to come across like the deranged nutcase? *hint: its you*
to be fair, they were walking an incredibly fine line, and both sides would have recieved heavy criticism. if they disrupted the world and the coronavirus turned out to be benign, they would've been attacked by the international community for doing so. if they did it too late, they would've been attacked just like you are now. they can't predict the future, so they just did their best, and adapted rapidly to changing circumstances and new info. not to mention, they got an accurate test out through the community _incredibly_ fast. its not their fault certain countries refused it.
@@shadowfire04 Thats not the problem. The problem is, the WHOs director is a piece of shit, who covered up multiple outbreaks of other diseases in Ethiopia, where he was the health director there after a Chinese sponsored communist coup. And the fact that they KNEW shit was going to hit the fan. They also ignored everything that Taiwan said about the situation because the CCP don't want Taiwan recognized as a state, and surprise surprise Taiwan has had amazing success controlling the outbreak. This is more then just walking a fine line, this was complete incompetence at best and active malevolence at worst.
4:25 i mean. the US is a developed country. would it be correct for them to take the tests provided by the WHO when there are so many poor countries with a terrible testing capacity?
It's not taking the physical tests from the poor countries. Its taking the information and initial samples to produce the test in our country. Instead of doing that we decided to develop our own. To put it this way when building a car instead of taking someone else's functioning blueprints to build it we decided to build our own blueprints from scratch. Problem is this delays the time you can start testing which allows the virus to spread for longer before you are able to fight it, which mean more people dying.
There is no good reason for doing so. At least they should have used those tests as a stopgap until our tests came online, but instead they did nothing while our tests were developed.
I was suggesting testing for antibodies and certifying persons who are immune some time now. This coming from a guy with zero experience in this field. Seemed like common sense to me.
Yes, but before we can do that, we'll have to make sure the covid-19 immunity is permanent, or at least to know the duration of the immunity. E.g, we can't get immune to flu, even we had flu, we will have it again. The least we want is for the recovered covid-19 patients to be reinfected again. It may still take sometime though
@@onlylonly888 agreed but how long before we know if immunity works? The best I can figure is base it on previous experience with corona viruses and move with that. Time is of the essence.
This is wayyy off topic to covid19 but ( keep scrolling ) 1:00 this guy looks familiar in some Holywood movies, one of which is Pacific rim, another is hobbits
It does... work with RNA o_O The reason it's converted to DNA is because we need two complementary strands to drive the reaction. RNA isn't supposed to be double stranded and it's MORE complicated to create such a reaction. RNA must be transcribed from DNA to be replicated (the viral RNA is converted to DNA inside a cell). Thus: if you have an RNA molecule and want to make many RNAs, you need to convert the RNA to DNA, and then you have ONE single template to create RNA from. If you instead copy the DNA, it will amplify exponentially: 1, 2, 4, 8 etc. Much faster!
So when they pull your DNA out of the tests, do they keep your DNA and put into the government Library? Every test comes with a name and just wondering if this was a good way to collect everyone's DNA... Does anybody know?
They shouldn't, but they can... Not sure whether they are allowed to or not. The way the sample is supposed to be used is to look for the viral DNA, not *your* DNA. Yours should be removed in the testing prosess
lollsazz ... I understand what you're saying, but our government has a library of DNA and it wants everybody's DNA. I was wondering if they were using those tests not only to check for the virus but also to get your DNA. Any chance the government gets to get DNA they're going to do it. Supreme Court ruled anybody that goes to jail has to submit their DNA, every baby that's born nowadays, the hospital will collect the DNA
@@joshmd5905 I've never been a fan of that. I don't think it should be legal and don't understand how someone got that through, probably without American people having a say in it at all. I know that I definitely wouldn't trust certain companies, but many tests are so simple that DNA collection from the person for library purposes would be very inconvenient. E.g. there are small diagnostic instruments like IdNow, where the sample is discarded after, and those samples are very unlikely to be used for other purposes. If you see they throw the sampling stick then it's unlikely they will do anything more with your DNA.
@@joshmd5905 Good video. I think a database from volunteers and criminals that have committed serious crimes (with ill intent). Would be OK, but there's DEFINITELY something that happent between that and letting police take DNA for all people going to prison or jail! I have studied genetics and I'm super sceptical about DNA being available to the government. There WILL be someone who will most definitely mismanage that information. 100% sure. People should be monitored, but definitely not micromanaged to the level of their DNA.
@@bijanadhikari7928 Does than the person get a healthy status at some point or is the vaccine the way to go? Also is that person a danger towards others until the vaccine is created?
Sina Farhat someone who is asymptomatic normally wouldn’t get tested as their are still shortages of tests world wide. But yes, if someone is positive, live in a location who’s rules suggest it, they should be quarantining themselves
@@elontusk610 That is the thing that puzzles me: we don´t for logical reasons test asymptomatic people, so assume that everyone is the bad guy and hope that the stay at home order makes that person non -contagious?
Seeker is developing it very well, it is from my point of view the most important revolution since Steve Jobs implemented the graphics environment in his first Apple, what I do not really understand is because this incredible perspective is only in the hands of Autodesk, this should also be distributed also be in the hands of Apple, Microsoft, all the big software companies, because I see them slow and they do not develop very well the perspective on the high security measures that the incredible invention must have, which is currently in the hands of only Autodesk , it is nothing more and nothing less to be able to digitize biology, and create simulations through a friendly graphical environment where it exponentially accelerates the creation of simulations to seek the greatest number of diverse possibilities from different angles or perspectives that must massively interact with the biology for specifically in the case of future pandemics that the action is really accelerated so that you ca find a quick solution and requires a quick cure for future pandemics, this is very slow, and I think it is the fault of the media that allow such an invention that is so necessary for the salvation of humanity to be solely in the hands of Autodesk, watch this video and read the comments, just try to focus positively on understanding that this is the way to face the cure quickly and accurately of future pandemics ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9euW5iCjKDo.html
the procedure they usually do is nothing special thing that's makes this test capable of detect covid-19 is a special substance that's not present in other tests there's nothing contradicting about it, it is just a word with diverging associations
@@starrmayhem There's no "special substance". The only thing that differs is DNA primers. They are not "special", just unique for every virus or bacteria you want to detect. He made it sound WAY more special than it is.
@@lollsazz quote "The special thing about this is that there's an essential ingredient -- a molecule that we provide" so yes, it is a substance that's only present in that test -- hence special
Perhaps there is a simpler / faster / cheaper way to tell if someone has the virus or not by finding a byproduct that the virus creates in the tested person's body..maybe if they can find traces of stuff that the virus is making / leaving behind then they can more easily test it.
Here in the US, we supposedly have more confirmed cases than any where else in the world. That has a lot to do with the extensive testing going on. This said, testing isn't the end answer or a cure. It's still a matter of treating and managing symptoms. Ultimately, the this helps identify infected individuals and can help limit the spread by isolating them.
extensive? really?? I call bullshit. here (40 min to the east from washington DC) many of the clinics are actually out of tests, and starting to run out of beds. considering the size of our population, I strongly doubt its extensive if you look at the ratios.
@@iTechPro360 Please do not self promote on people's comments. Not only is it annoying, it is likely to get a strike against your comments as "spam". Be aware of this!
Do the tests return a positive specifically and only for Covid-19? There has been talk that these tests will return positives for many other corona virus strains. It would be nice to know given the apparent drop-off of other infectious diseases such as pneumonia and bronchial infections during the outbreak.
They can return false positives if they are detecting sequences that are present in several different coronaviruses. However, they can also return false positives if SARS-2 mutates and the sequence the test is looking for changes enough
