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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.34 [SLACK_000248] · slack_pm:msg:00336

Date: 2020-05-22 15:02
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Furin cleavage site and molecular features

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It's obvious, but the only bits I'm really interested in are the RBD and the cleavage site of the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. Yeah would be great. Hopefully not another - we have the 99+% virus cycle of build-up, promise, anticipation and - then most sadly deflation. WHO is supposedly putting a panel together to "investigate" the originsas well but I'd hope that the Chinese might have figured out a way to actually find something. I guess if I had toguess on species X I'd go with bat - pretty good bet.

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It's obvious, but the only bits I'm really interested in are the RBD and the cleavage site of the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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It's obvious, but the only bits I'm really interested in are the RBD and the cleavage site of the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.

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2020-05-22 14:22 Edward C. Holmes open

Some complete BS answers (they had the sequence by Dec 26/27) but interesting that he says there is a task force investigating the animal origins.
2020-05-22 14:31 Edward C. Holmes open

I fully expect George Gao's team to come up with a paper describing a very closely related virus in species X in fairly near future. Let's just hope it's close enough to end debate and that they made all the raw read data available.
2020-05-22 14:34 Kristian G. Andersen open

Interesting... No, I did not read that - but will do. I really do hope a source will come up - would be so much easier and just end this shit show.
2020-05-22 14:37 Edward C. Holmes open

Completely agree. I so want that to happen.
2020-05-22 15:02 Robert F. Garry

It's obvious, but the only bits I'm really interested in are the RBD and the cleavage site of the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. Yeah would be great. Hopefully not another - we have the 99+% virus cycle of build-up, promise, anticipation and - then most sadly deflation. WHO is supposedly putting a panel together to "investigate" the originsas well but I'd hope that the Chinese might have figured out a way to actually find something. I guess if I had toguess on species X I'd go with bat - pretty good bet.
2020-05-22 15:06 Edward C. Holmes open

Bob, I'll take your bat and raise you a raccoon dog. Only because they are so weird. I still think there was an intermediate. I can't see how WHO will be able to do what China can't. It's also the obvious way for China to end all the conspiracy shit - find a believable natural origin and it's over. Let's watch this space.

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