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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.2-3 [SLACK_000216] · slack_pm:msg:00012

Date: 2020-05-01 02:26
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Intelligence community assessments Masks, lockdowns and NPIs

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I don't follow - "The mutation Spike D614G is of urgent concern". Frankly, my concern over the virus has not really changed one jot over this mutation. D614 was associated with a huge epidemic in China that was only controlled through a severe lockdown and don't see any difference in G614.

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D614 was associated with a huge epidemic in China that was only controlled through a severe lockdown and don't see any difference in G614.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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D614 was associated with a huge epidemic in China that was only controlled through a severe lockdown and don't see any difference in G614.

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speaker_own

asserts

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2020-05-01 02:26 Edward C. Holmes

I don't follow - "The mutation Spike D614G is of urgent concern". Frankly, my concern over the virus has not really changed one jot over this mutation. D614 was associated with a huge epidemic in China that was only controlled through a severe lockdown and don't see any difference in G614.
2020-05-01 02:51 Andrew Rambaut open

Yes. It is bollocks. Looking at the Sheffield clinical data too - very weak. We are preparing a rebuttal based on theUK data. This paper will be going to Science I would imagine. Would be good to rebut it before review.
2020-05-01 02:58 Edward C. Holmes open

Cell I believe. Get your retaliation in first. Excellent.
2020-05-01 03:00 Edward C. Holmes open

This one is a corker. I noticed it because MaRNAV-1 is my Plasmodium narnavirus of which I am very proud. No need to read beyond the 3rd paragraph of the Abstract: [shared file(s): Mehta2020.pdf]

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