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Curefinder? I tried it and got arsefinger.

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2020-05-24 15:18 Edward C. Holmes

Curefinder? I tried it and got arsefinger.
2020-05-24 15:22 Kristian G. Andersen open

Use a proper translator... This one should be easy :wink:
2020-05-24 15:26 Edward C. Holmes open

Although CGTN is a propaganda organ for the Chinese government, what she said rang true to me.
2020-05-24 15:30 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yes, although I don't buy her "we were only interested in SARS-like CoVs, and something like SARS-CoV-2 is too far away from that, so we'd never have it here". That's just not true and not a good argument. I liked her commentson RaTG13 though, because it displays something important which she didn't say - yes, they have a lot of samples from bats and other animals - as well as a lot of sequences - but taking a sample and growing an actual virus out ofit is really, really difficult. So with tens of thousands of samples (most of them with no SARS-like viruses in them), one could only hope to maybe grow out a handful of viruses - what's the chance of out of that handful, one of them would be a super-charged pandemic virus?
2020-05-24 15:36 Edward C. Holmes open

Yes, I agree. And surely you'd only grow a virus that you sequenced and likely published?