<story><title>Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhanhfo</author><text>I upvoted this just because of the nature.com link - but after I actually read it, I am disapointed. Summary:&lt;p&gt;Q: Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?&lt;p&gt;A: We don&amp;#x27;t know yet&lt;p&gt;The results presented not verified by experiments yet.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But some researchers are cautious about overstating the role of the activation site in helping the coronavirus to spread more easily. “We don’t know if this is going to be a big deal or not,” says Jason McLellan, a structural biologist at the University of Texas at Austin&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giarc</author><text>&amp;gt;A: We don&amp;#x27;t know yet&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a gross oversimplification of the article.  They have identified proteins and associated host-cell enzymes and can postulate why this combination would result in greater spread (and additionally why other organs are affected).</text></comment>
<story><title>Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhanhfo</author><text>I upvoted this just because of the nature.com link - but after I actually read it, I am disapointed. Summary:&lt;p&gt;Q: Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?&lt;p&gt;A: We don&amp;#x27;t know yet&lt;p&gt;The results presented not verified by experiments yet.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But some researchers are cautious about overstating the role of the activation site in helping the coronavirus to spread more easily. “We don’t know if this is going to be a big deal or not,” says Jason McLellan, a structural biologist at the University of Texas at Austin&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmtroyer</author><text>So it is not a click-bait title, they are actually asking the question.</text></comment>