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[this was early January]

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2020-05-01 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, firewalls and bollockswalls were needed pretty quickly. Still need the wall though. Or not.
2020-05-01 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen open

Baric's paper IS really strange - I think he's just miffed because a bunch of amateurs came walking all over his turf.
2020-05-01 16:31 Edward C. Holmes open

Exactly how I read it.
2020-05-01 16:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

I also had a pretty heated discussion with him on one of the WH committee calls where I mentioned that the RBD would probably lead to high affinity binding and the furin site being active. He essentially said that was all bullshit and I couldn't possibly know... Well.
2020-05-01 16:32 Kristian G. Andersen

[this was early January]
2020-05-01 16:33 Edward C. Holmes open

We actually did him a MASSIVE favour in writing that article. He would be really in the cross-hairs without it.
2020-05-01 16:34 Kristian G. Andersen open

No shit. In fact, one of his co-authors on the 2015 paper emailed me yesterday thanking us for the paper. He's just agrump - you know the type.
2020-05-01 16:34 Edward C. Holmes open

Yes, I know the type.