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But we are surely not going to be expecting people to wear masks when there are apparently no cases just in case.

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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 open

> 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

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.
2020-06-18 16:02 Andrew Rambaut open

Just saw a paper that showed it infects guinea pigs (and transmits). So we have primates, rodents, carnivores andpholidotes so far.