Private channel session 1475

15 messages over 20m, 2021-06-04 – 2021-06-04.

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2021-06-04 07:18 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.916

I hadn't actually thought about the possibility of additional spillovers. Would immediately invalidate the lab leak -although, of course, there's a lab there too... A good one. And they're working on CoVs...
2021-06-04 07:23 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.916

What did you mean by 'reintroductions'? Imports from global?
2021-06-04 07:24 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.916

Yeah, sorry - I meant new/additional. Not "re"
2021-06-04 07:25 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.916

I should offer to be a consultant to design a genome that would categorically disprove the lab leak.
2021-06-04 07:25 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.916

Or that it started in the USA
2021-06-04 07:26 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.916

(more tricky - you would have to plant it in the US
2021-06-04 07:26 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.916

I nominate San Diego!
2021-06-04 07:27 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.916

Or, if you think NOLA would do - I'm your guy!
2021-06-04 07:27 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.916

Currently the most believable root is a US sequence, sooo....
2021-06-04 07:27 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.916

I wa thinking Chapel Hill
2021-06-04 07:28 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.916

Payback for Deep Throat bs email Epic.
2021-06-04 07:28 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.916

WA-1 or something even earlier in Chapel HIll - love it!
2021-06-04 07:36 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.916

Angie and SG [shared file(s): We may never know where the virus came from. But evidence still suggests nature. -The Washington Post.pdf]
2021-06-04 07:37 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.917

Any good? Won't be able to read for an hour or so..
2021-06-04 07:39 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.917

It's fine - 99% of the public's eyes will glaze over - the head's of the TFHs and Bloomshitters will explode...