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Don't mistake honey bee antimicrobial peptides (AMP) with the ones referred to in your coronavirus references Juanse ... the latter are either fusion inhibitors that prevent the coronavirus spike protein from mediating the fusion with the cell it 'wants' to infect, or T-cell peptides to for immunological research (not therapy). Neither of these have anything to do with the AMP's of honey bees.
A peptide is just a small part of a polypeptide, or protein.
I agree with Pete B. ... too few individuals, no indication whether they were infected or not, all anecdotal. Wuhan has a population of over 11 million, Hubei province has 19 million. Hubei has had about 80,000 cases and 4,000 deaths (most in Wuhan, but I don't have the figures to hand). I don't for a minute believe that there weren't a huge number of undetected cases, but just based on those figures sampling 723 from 11 million with an infection rate of ~0.4% is unlikely to identify any that were ill.
I also agree with Janet ... wouldn't it be great if it did work, for bees, beekeeping and for Covid.
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