Private channel session 1358

3 messages over 20m, 2021-05-11 – 2021-05-11.

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1. 2021-05-11 20:03 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.781
   Planning on putting another nail in the Wade coffin later this week to take down his argument about "2) Natural history and evolution" (it's so dumb it hurts...). Anyway, I came across our previous conversation about pango CoVs binding better to human cells - turns out that work is actually on the bioRxiv:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.22.436468v1.Very very interesting stuff - kinda freaky.
2. 2021-05-11 20:17 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.781
   I remember this. Plus the virus does so well in other animals. Huge outbreaks in mink with no adaptive burn-in. It's atrue generalist.
3. 2021-05-11 20:23 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.781
   Yup - I'll be making a few points about that... And cats. And mice. And chimps. And dogs. And tigers. I'm also very much looking forward to using Andrew's Mother of All Root to Tip Plots to show exactly how well-adapted SARS-CoV-2 was when it jumped into humans...