Don't know the website but this may be good news

[malaise]

https://www.blogto.com/tech/2020/03/joint-research-team-toronto-has-successfully-isolated-virus-causing-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2I3KzpR5Vi122zVMa0GQnjLuC2E4ueMDkoLwyOo0X5k3LDXvz4nTNXdPo
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In what amounts to a rare stroke of good news for the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, scientists in Toronto have isolated what they call "the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19."

Research teams from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the University of Toronto and McMaster University collaborated in quick time to culture the "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)" from two clinical specimens.

The work was performed at an undisclosed Level 3 containment facility within Ontario.

"Researchers from these world-class institutions came together in a grassroots way to successfully isolate the virus in just a few short weeks," said Dr. Rob Kozak, clinical microbiologist at Sunnybrook and U of T, in a news release from the hospital on Thursday night.

"It demonstrates the amazing things that can happen when we collaborate."

[uponit7771]

1. Yes now they can test outside of human and animal subjects like im the movie Contagion

[OrlandoDem2]

2. Wait. I didn't think that countries with socialized medicine make medical advances.

That’s what we hear from the GOP. We always hear that the USA has the greatest medical system on the planet and socialist countries are backwards.

[malaise]

3. Some thing can never be for profit

Healthcare is the best example - It's that simple

[crickets]

4. Preach it.

Making peoples lives a matter of profit margins is immoral.


eta - Just to be clear, of course people who work in health care deserve recompense - but the overarching for profit health care system we have now is, IMO, morally wrong.