COVID-19 Records

Private channel session 723

2 messages over 4m, 2020-12-25 – 2020-12-25.

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  1. 2020-12-25 10:12 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.343
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17367-2 Gentlemen - a third example of human SC2 adaptation to another species. "Two substitutions were detected in the consensus sequence of viruses collected from all ferrets ascompared to the sequence of the original virus isolate: N501T and S686G, both in the spike protein." So WoW, the mink N501T plus the residue AFTER the FCS. More grist for PO2.
  2. 2020-12-25 10:17 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.343
    There may be a ferret N501Y mutations somewhere - looking...