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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.83-84 [SLACK_000297] · slack_pm:msg:00846

Date: 2020-06-18 15:58
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: China relations and data access

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> But there was no coronavirus in Beijing so why would you need to wear masks? Yup - but question is - did they do anyway? I'm not sure what the current regulations are.

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> But there was no coronavirus in Beijing so why would you need to wear masks?	needs context	speaker_own	questions

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> But there was no coronavirus in Beijing so why would you need to wear masks?

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2020-06-18 15:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

One main question I have here - were they wearing masks? There's this (likely wrong) belief now that if we all just put on masks, we'll be fine.
2020-06-18 15:57 Kristian G. Andersen open

> Still curious about the diversity in the 3 genomes Between them, or compared to others?
2020-06-18 15:57 Andrew Rambaut open

But there was no coronavirus in Beijing so why would you need to wear masks?
2020-06-18 15:57 Andrew Rambaut open

Between them.
2020-06-18 15:58 Kristian G. Andersen

> But there was no coronavirus in Beijing so why would you need to wear masks? Yup - but question is - did they do anyway? I'm not sure what the current regulations are.
2020-06-18 16:00 Andrew Rambaut open

But we are surely not going to be expecting people to wear masks when there are apparently no cases just in case.
2020-06-18 16:00 Andrew Rambaut open

If the whole of China was wearing masks all the time?
2020-06-18 16:00 Andrew Rambaut open

That is a lot of masks.
2020-06-18 16:01 Edward C. Holmes open

I guess is that masks will still be effectively compulsory in China. In a similar bipolar world, I've screened lots ofpapers on bioRxiv that basically fall into two camps: (i) SARS-CoV-2 is able to bind to ACE2 from a broad range ofspecies; (ii) SARS-CoV-2 is able to bind to ACE2 from a narrow range of species.

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