COVID-19 Records

Private channel session 88

4 messages over 1h 43m, 2020-05-25 – 2020-05-25.

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.

  1. 2020-05-25 15:22 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.39
    "Since codon usage in coronaviruses are not greatly influenced by the host it resides in, this means a jump to humans must have been in a host which did not have even a few months history with the virus, otherwise the terminal G would have been purified out". There are a number leaps in logic and evidence at this point.
  2. 2020-05-25 15:37 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.39
    HKU9 has CGG CGG - send him Bill Gallaher's link.
  3. 2020-05-25 16:08 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.39
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/china-coronavirus-dossier-came-out-of-us-state-department/12282994
  4. 2020-05-25 17:05 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.39
    It's now two for two - phylogenetics can be hard... @Andrew Rambaut, I assume your preprint must have prompted this...? (separately, I blame you for convincing me that the hypothesis was right!! :wink: ). https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1265063921880150016?s=20