Intra and interspecies interaction between mass confined animals and their handlers – an ideal reservoir for Coronavirus evolution
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Multiple variants of the virus responsible for COVID-19 have been detected since the pandemic started, however a miniscule minority succeed in persisting and successfully promulgating infection in humans. A research group in Basel, Switzerland has detected a persistent mutant designated as 20A.EU1 of COVID-19, which has spread extensively in the European Continent. The initial stages of the variant appear to have originated in the North East region of Spain and two outbreaks of infection with this variant were detected in farmers coming from the provinces of Aragon and Catalonia in late June 2020. Later in July, more than 100,000 minks in the Spanish North East were culled as they were found to be infected by SARS-CoV-2. There is the possibility that the mass confinement of infected animals resulted in high viral reproduction rates increasing the risk for the development of mutants, which through crossing-over and natural selection persisted to become pathogenic in humans.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it