Yeah. Bad news at the international level has been causing me to wonder how to set up a fallback plan where “if I see X then I should check Y about the RadVac design and if adequate I should order some peptides”.
My current second best candidate for “X” is to watch Israel (where vaccination is very high) for a spike that is explained by new strains. A better canary would be a place with decent vaccination rates but otherwise a catastrophically poorly run public health service (like in terms of clinics and testing systems and coordinated travel policies and so on)… and basically I think maybe the US is that canary? :-(
Trying to imagine what “Y” would be is harder, like… I just searched for [peptide epitope search tool] and found the immune epitope database which could be relevantly helpful.
> I’m not the most knowledgeable person on this, even on LW...
Coming from you, this seems like extremely high praise for the forum. Care to name names? Also, I wonder if we could improve the attempt to summon them by promising to be thankful for their contributions? ;-)
Yeah. Bad news at the international level has been causing me to wonder how to set up a fallback plan where “if I see X then I should check Y about the RadVac design and if adequate I should order some peptides”.
My current second best candidate for “X” is to watch Israel (where vaccination is very high) for a spike that is explained by new strains. A better canary would be a place with decent vaccination rates but otherwise a catastrophically poorly run public health service (like in terms of clinics and testing systems and coordinated travel policies and so on)… and basically I think maybe the US is that canary? :-(
Trying to imagine what “Y” would be is harder, like… I just searched for [peptide epitope search tool] and found the immune epitope database which could be relevantly helpful.
> I’m not the most knowledgeable person on this, even on LW...
Coming from you, this seems like extremely high praise for the forum. Care to name names? Also, I wonder if we could improve the attempt to summon them by promising to be thankful for their contributions? ;-)