Interestingly, a recent transcriptomic profiling study of SARS-CoV-2 strains associated with the New York City outbreak found high occurrence of a mutation (20755:A > C) that will change serine 33 to an arginine in gate loop 1 of SARS-CoV-2 nsp1626. Future studies will reveal the ...
Just re-read Berton Roueche’s “A Man From Mexico,” on the last smallpox outbreak in New York City (1947). The first case had traveled from Mexico to NYC by bus, with multiple stops on the way, then spent five days in a Manhattan hotel before taking himself to Bellevue. (They ...