Private channel session 20

17 messages over 1h 11m, 2020-05-04 – 2020-05-04.

A “conversation” here is an activity session — a run of messages with under 60 minutes of silence inside it. The channel had no native conversation boundaries.

2020-05-04 16:01 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.8

Let's hope the reviewers see this. That's the great thing about bioRxiv - if you're a reviewer you can get most of itdone just by following a few threads on Twitter.
2020-05-04 16:07 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.8

Eddie - I've been asked to do an interview with one of your local TV stations. I'm guessing Kristian turned them down. Too bad I think with Kristian as our "face" we could get to 50K pretty fast.
2020-05-04 16:11 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.8

It seems our score might have hit a plateau - similar to the US COVID-19 curve... Talking to the House tomorrow -that might ultimately lead to a boost.
2020-05-04 16:12 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.9

Which TV station is that? I turn down everything.
2020-05-04 16:14 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.9

that what i figured - i look it up...
2020-05-04 16:15 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.9

ABC... TV AND radio - on a Sunday! I don't work on shabbat!!!
2020-05-04 16:15 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.9

Oh the ABC are ok. The BBC equivalent.
2020-05-04 16:20 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.9

From this otherwise excellent overview - wtf?? [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-05-04 at 4.19.57 PM.png]
2020-05-04 16:20 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.9

https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-020-01315-7/d41586-020-01315-7.pdf
2020-05-04 16:21 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.9

Do people honestly think magic will save us? Several good quotes by Bob and Andrew though :wink:
2020-05-04 16:30 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.9

I'm 100% certain he said a lot more than that - and was very reasonable - but the journo has just picked specific quotes and chosen the context. That particularly Nature reporter has form and I refuse to talk to him.
2020-05-04 16:54 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.9

Yes - but the article also says that OC43 caused the 1898 Russian flu. I thought it was H3N8. Is this true aboutOC43 or don't we know. OC43 has a furin site and O-glycans.
2020-05-04 16:56 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.9

There can't be any evidence it is OC43, surely?
2020-05-04 17:03 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.9

circumstantial and speculation is all it seems.
2020-05-04 17:11 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.9

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7112090/
2020-05-04 17:13 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.10

Drosten sorta comes out and says it too. "The emergence of HCoV-OC43 in humans was proposed to be linked to a host-switching event around the year 1890, a time that coincides with a pandemic of respiratory disease recorded inhumans (Vijgen et al., 2005, 2006)."
2020-05-04 17:13 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.10

OC43 is intersting...