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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.83 [SLACK_000297] · slack_pm:msg:00837

Date: 2020-06-18 15:54
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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The other day the narrative was that the Wuhan market was a hot spot because it was 'hot and sweaty' now these markets are hot spots because they are 'cold and wet'. Obviously dry and temperate is the best place to live. Does sound like this cluster has been around for a while though.

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A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.

2020-06-18 15:46 Andrew Rambaut open

Plausible: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/global-report-beijing-covid-19-cluster-may-have-begun-amonth-earlier-china-health-chief
2020-06-18 15:47 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup. Bloody exponential growth!
2020-06-18 15:48 Kristian G. Andersen open

Could have been a single hit and then slow fuse, boom.
2020-06-18 15:48 Andrew Rambaut open

This whole group has that triple mutation in N. I was trying to work out where that arose (first seen in a German sequence but there might be an earlier one now).
2020-06-18 15:54 Edward C. Holmes

The other day the narrative was that the Wuhan market was a hot spot because it was 'hot and sweaty' now these markets are hot spots because they are 'cold and wet'. Obviously dry and temperate is the best place to live. Does sound like this cluster has been around for a while though.
2020-06-18 15:55 Kristian G. Andersen open

I think the markets are probably just super spreading events + increased surveillance.
2020-06-18 15:56 Andrew Rambaut open

I bet they have a flashing red light on the hospital computer which goes on whenever there is a pneumonia case associated with a live animal market.
2020-06-18 15:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah.
2020-06-18 15:56 Andrew Rambaut open

Still curious about the diversity in the 3 genomes.

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