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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.7 [SLACK_000221] · slack_pm:msg:00061

Date: 2020-05-03 08:00
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: EcoHealth Alliance funding and grants

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This cracked me up - from CBS 60 minutes: _"We have been working with Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, and looking at his effort to identify viral threats in the wild. Given the recent announcement of their cut in funding, we're looking to speak with someone inthe scientific community *who has used EcoHealth Alliance's data and sequences from samples in their own work* and can speak to the importance of this type of field research"_Hah - what data exactly? There is no data...

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This cracked me up - from CBS 60 minutes: _"We have been working with Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, and looking at his effort to identify viral threats in the wild.	quoted / not their view	sarcasm ironic or mocking marker	asserts
Given the recent announcement of their cut in funding, we're looking to speak with someone inthe scientific community who has used EcoHealth Alliance's data and sequences from samples in their own work and can speak to the importance of this type of field research"_Hah - what data exactly?	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	questions

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This cracked me up - from CBS 60 minutes: _"We have been working with Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, and looking at his effort to identify viral threats in the wild.

quoted / not their view

sarcasm ironic or mocking marker

asserts

Given the recent announcement of their cut in funding, we're looking to speak with someone inthe scientific community *who has used EcoHealth Alliance's data and sequences from samples in their own work* and can speak to the importance of this type of field research"_Hah - what data exactly?

quoted / not their view

quoted_external inside quotation marks

questions

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2020-05-03 08:00 Kristian G. Andersen

This cracked me up - from CBS 60 minutes: _"We have been working with Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, and looking at his effort to identify viral threats in the wild. Given the recent announcement of their cut in funding, we're looking to speak with someone inthe scientific community *who has used EcoHealth Alliance's data and sequences from samples in their own work* and can speak to the importance of this type of field research"_Hah - what data exactly? There is no data...
2020-05-03 08:17 Robert F. Garry open

Yes - but 60 minutes - - big rating - mention Nature Medicine - 50K
2020-05-03 08:22 Kristian G. Andersen open

I have talked to them previously - was disappointed by their lack of knowledge...

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